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10 March 2015

State Attorneys General Reach Settlement With Digital Advertising Company Over Internet Privacy Allegations

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The states alleged that the advertiser circumvented privacy settings that blocked cookies from third party advertisers in order to extract information about consumers.
United States Privacy

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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