We Speak For Earth

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Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.’s Web browser on their iPhones and computers—tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked.

The companies used special computer code that tricks Apple’s Safari Web-browsing software into letting them monitor many users. Safari, the most widely used browser on mobile devices, is designed to block such tracking by default.

Google disabled its code after being contacted by The Wall Street Journal.

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This is the problem when you consolidate power. Even great people or organizations may come to abuse it. I mean, I used to really, really respect Google, but lately… I miss the google which passionately embraced the value of “don’t be evil”. And that’s google, one of the better ones. Just think of how other power magnates, like murdoch and the koch brothers, use their power!