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Released: February 22, 2012
Google, Microsoft tangle over tracking, online privacy
Source: Byron Acohido, USA Today (Free Registration)
Mudslinging between tech rivals is nothing new. But the red hot issue of online privacy has pushed it to another level.
Last week, Google scrambled to deflect criticism that it tracked the online activities of users’ of Apple’s Safari Web browser against their wishes, by circumventing an anti-tracking mechanism.
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