Did Google Hack Apple’s Safari into tracking users?

Google has reportedly been using a special code to attach cookies to users’ machines when they used Apple’s browser, Safari. According to research published by Stanford graduate student Jonathan Mayer, four advertising companies — Google, Vibrant Media, WPP PLC’s Media Innovation Group and Gannett’s PointRoll — have all been using code to work around privacy features in Safari’s mobile browser.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-pulls-cookies-that-tracked-users-through-safari/2012/02/17/gIQATr4lJR_story.html

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