Don’t Be Evil… Unless There’s Profit In It

Google’s iPhone Tracking

Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.’s Web browser on their iPhones and computers—tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked.

The companies used special computer code that tricks Apple’s Safari Web-browsing software into letting them monitor many users. Safari, the most widely used browser on mobile devices, is designed to block such tracking by default.

Google disabled its code after being contacted by The Wall Street Journal.

Microsoft: Google bypassed privacy settings in IE, too

A week after Microsoft criticized Google over bypassing user privacy settings on Apple’s Safari, the Softies are admitting publicly that Google did the same with Internet Explorer (IE).

Google has responded by accusing MS of using an outdated security protocol. Which is akin to blaming the victim of the crime for the crime.

“He left the keys in is car, I just HAD to steal it. If he didn’t want his car stolen, he shouldn’t have left the keys in it.

Or maybe,

“If she didn’t want to be raped, she shouldn’t have dressed so provocatively.”

While Microsoft certainly should have been more vigilant, that doesn’t make Google any less culpable. If people don’t want their data track, Google and everyone else should respect that.

Yeah, I know. That will happen when the Flying Monkeys come out of my butt. Hell, they haven’t even started their pre flight yet.

If nothing else, I’m glad I stopped using Google.