On December 16, 2014, attorneys general for New Jersey,
Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland and New York agreed to a
$750,000 settlement with a digital advertiser
after an investigation into whether it violated consumer privacy by
unlawfully circumventing privacy settings in the Safari Web
browser. The states alleged that the advertiser circumvented
privacy settings that blocked cookies from third party advertisers
in order to extract information about consumers. Under the
settlement, the advertiser is prohibited from disabling consumer
settings that block cookies and must implement a privacy program
within six months.
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