House Dems Go After Other Safari Privacy Dodgers

Letter to other companies follows Google briefing with lawmakers

Thanks to the Google-obsessed press, Vibrant Media, Media Innovation Group and PointRoll almost got away with bypassing the privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser. But now the three companies will have to answer to two House Democrats who are asking the three other Safari dodgers to explain why they failed to honor Safari's third-party cookie blocking.

Since mid-month when a Stanford University research study showed that Google DoubleClick and others were circumventing the Safari privacy controls and tracking Internet users without their permission, Google took all the heat.

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