Microsoft has accused Google of bypassing user privacy settings. According to a Windows Internet Explorer engineering team blog on MSDN, when the IE team heard Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, it tried to find out if the company is circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too?
And, "we've discovered the answer is yes," writes Microsoft's IE corporate vice president Dean Hachamovitch in the blog titled Google bypassing user privacy settings. According to Hachamovitch, Google is employing similar methods like Safari to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies.
Writes Hachamovitch "By default, IE blocks third-party cookies unless the site presents a P3P Compact Policy Statement indicating how the site will use the cookie and that the site's use does not include tracking the user. Google's P3P policy causes Internet Explorer to accept Google's cookies even though the policy does not state Google's intent."
However, Hachamovitch claims that Internet Explorer 9 has an additional privacy feature called Tracking Protection which is not susceptible to this type of bypass. Hence, Microsoft advises its users to use Internet Explorer 9 and add a Tracking Protection List to protect themselves from Google's bypass of P3P privacy protection.
A recent Wall Street Journal article described how Google "bypassed Apple browser settings for guarding privacy." Explaining this further, Business Insider website wrote that Google secretly developed a way to circumvent default privacy settings established by a... competitor, Apple... (and) Google then used the workaround to drop ad-tracking cookies on the Safari users, which is exactly the sort of practice that Apple was trying to prevent.
And, "we've discovered the answer is yes," writes Microsoft's IE corporate vice president Dean Hachamovitch in the blog titled Google bypassing user privacy settings. According to Hachamovitch, Google is employing similar methods like Safari to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies.
Writes Hachamovitch "By default, IE blocks third-party cookies unless the site presents a P3P Compact Policy Statement indicating how the site will use the cookie and that the site's use does not include tracking the user. Google's P3P policy causes Internet Explorer to accept Google's cookies even though the policy does not state Google's intent."
However, Hachamovitch claims that Internet Explorer 9 has an additional privacy feature called Tracking Protection which is not susceptible to this type of bypass. Hence, Microsoft advises its users to use Internet Explorer 9 and add a Tracking Protection List to protect themselves from Google's bypass of P3P privacy protection.
A recent Wall Street Journal article described how Google "bypassed Apple browser settings for guarding privacy." Explaining this further, Business Insider website wrote that Google secretly developed a way to circumvent default privacy settings established by a... competitor, Apple... (and) Google then used the workaround to drop ad-tracking cookies on the Safari users, which is exactly the sort of practice that Apple was trying to prevent.
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