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‘Immoral!’: Google refuses UK trial over iPhone tracking
Google says that the plaintiffs suffered no harm and were “mistakenly” tracked. The company’s lawyers are calling for the lawsuit to be brought to California, where the company is based. Google’s attempt to move the lawsuit was met with furor by the plaintiffs, one of whom called the internet giant “arrogant and immoral”. Continue reading
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Snowden latest: NSA stalks the human race using Google, ad cookies By Iain Thomson
Documents seen by the Washington Post show that the NSA and the British snoops at GCHQ have found a way to piggyback on a Google tracking cookie dubbed PREFID. This doesn’t contain personal data, but does contain an identifier unique to each browser, so by subverting the Google code a particular user can be easily… Continue reading