Google breaks IE user privacy settings

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Dupple

on Monday February 20, 2012 @04:56PM

Dupple writes "Google have not only violated Safari users privacy settings, but it seems that the they violated IE's privacy settings as well."
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Cannot tell if Google or IE is at fault. (Score:1)

by el33thack3r (579883) writes:

The article says that Google sends a human-readable response instead of a P3P policy. IE somehow interprets this response rather liberally. It is not at all clear where the fault lies here -- security/privacy software should not interpret a human-readable string containing unparseable tokens as license to go ahead; they should fail safe.

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Cannot tell if Google or IE is at fault. (Score:1)