Google spied for iPhone owners

The market is on the verge of another scandal involving the infringement of the privacy of users of the World Wide Web. In the center of a new sensation is the corporation Google, which is suspected of tracking sites that users visit.

According to the newspaper The Wall Street Journal, the Internet giant and advertising company established to iOS-device specific code, which went around the privacy settings browser Safari. At the request of journalists' code of spyware presence was confirmed by a technical expert WSJ Ashkanom Soltani. According to him, advertising for 22 of the 100 most visited resources established a code into a test computer WSJ. Advertise on 23 sites installed the code to test iPhone.

Since the code was found in an advertisement posted on popular web sites: youtube.com, nytimes.com, Merriam-webster.com, Fandango.com. In fact, experts say WSJ, the situation is beyond the scope of these sites, because that was installed code allows Google to track attendance at many other sites.

Internet giant acknowledged the existence of this when, but noted that it only uses features Safari, and does not collect personally identifiable information. At the same time immediately after the publication of stories in The Wall Street Journal Corporation deactivate the code.