Google Privacy Snafu Stirs Privacy Debate, Again

Lawmakers, privacy watchers alarmed

It looks like Google was caught with its hand in the privacy cookie jar again. The Wall Street Journal cited a research study from Stanford University showing that Google DoubleClick was circumventing user's privacy controls on Safari and tracking them without their knowledge or permission.

The report, following so close on the heels on the controversity over Google's coming change in its privacy policy March 1, is bound to cause another firestorm.

Google responded quickly to the accuasions in the report.

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