Microsoft says Google is snooping on IE users
2012-02-21 10:48 by Daniela
Tags: Microsoft
Microsoft on Monday accused Google of bypassing privacy protections in Internet Explorer, following accusations last week that Google was doing so in Apple's Safari browser. "When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question: is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too?" Dean Hachamovitch, VP of Internet Explorer wrote in a blog post. "We've discovered the answer is yes: Google is employing similar methods to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies." "Technically, Google utilizes a nuance in the P3P specification that has the effect of bypassing user preferences about cookies," Hachamovitch wrote. "Google's P3P policy is actually a statement that it is not a P3P policy. It's intended for humans to read even though P3P policies are designed for browsers to 'read'," he said. Hachamovitch said that Microsoft has written to Google and asked it to stop doing what it is doing and "honour" IE's and other browsers' P3P settings. He added, of course, that any internet users that want to better protect their privacy should use Internet Explorer 9. Read more -here-
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