As expected, Google has agreed to a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission to pay $22.5 million, the largest such fine in the agency’s history, for violating an earlier settlement with the FTC not to misrepresent Google privacy policies to consumers. Specifically, the FTC says that in 2011 and 2012, Google placed advertising tracking cookies, or tiny files, on millions of personal computers that used Apple’s Safari browser, despite the fact that Google said Safari blocked the cookies by default. As Jon Leibowitz, Chairman of the FTC, said in a statement.
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