Google Was Secretly Planting Cookies On ‘Millions’ Of iPhone Browsers

- Your FTC Privacy Watchdogs: Low-Tech, Defensive, Toothless (Wired/ProPublica, June 28, 2012): Jonathan Mayer had a hunch. The young computer scientist suspected that online advertisers might be following consumers around the web — even when they set their browsers to block the snippets of tracking code called cookies. If Mayer’s instinct was right, advertisers were [...] continue reading the breaking news