Google to pay $17M fine in smartphone privacy breach

Monday, November 18, 2013 - 15:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Google Inc will pay $17 million US to settle allegations in 37 states and the District of Colombia that it secretly tracked web users by placing special digital files on the web browsers of their smartphones.

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