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Google pays $5.5m to settle Apple Safari privacy case

Dave Neal
Dave Neal
clock 01 September 2016 •
Google pays $5.5m to settle Apple Safari privacy case

Class-action suit settled but consumers won't see a penny

Google has agreed to pay $5.5m for tracking Apple Safari users' web browsing habits in a data slurp that the company suggested was done by mistake. This is on top of other fines that the firm has already...

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