this weekend, both the men and the women of the usa are going to vie for the gold in basketball. although i have got to tell you in terms of the men s basketball team. you think a slam dunk so to you ve got lebron. you are acting like we got it in the bag. i m feeling that. i think you are right. i hop the thi to another olympic-sized legal sent. federal trade commission fined google $22.5 million, record for the agency, they claim google violated privacy of millions who used apple safari web browser and sent them personalized ads. google denies any blame. attorneys claim apple changed the brpnd did t and wall street investment firm goldman sachs is in the clear following a federal fraud investigation. pthetmenit the firm was under investigation for the way it handled the sal of complex mortgage securities to other banks. internal e-mail showed ploy they themselves tem1
candidates in tough re-election battles in swing districts will vote on this law and what the impact will be in november. shepard: mike, thank you. internet privacy and google will pay a record fine to settle charges it violated people s privacy online. the feds say google tracked the interpret habits of millions of folk whose use the safari web browser when settings were supposed to be blocking it. it is standard with apple computers and iphones and ipads and announced immediately necessity halted the secret tracking soon after the story broke back in february so they got caught and then they stopped. now the wall street journal which is owned by our parent company, google will sell with the federal trade commission to the tune of $22.5 million, the biggest penalty they have ever slapped on any one company.
have to be as pure as caesar s wife and i knew caesar s wife, a i ll ago. randy: who was caesar s wife. we tell clients, honest, open, and transparent. hot. shepard: hot, he says. randy: that is fascinating it comes down to intent. just as we discussed earlier, agree, this happened and there was a knock on the door at the safari web browser and the spy wasn t supposed to be allowed in and the door was closed and the spy said candy, and the door was open and the spy went in so the question is, why was the spy let in? did google do this on purpose? they say we had this feature, and if you are using google and you want to tell a friend you love this ad, you can do that. and they said as a result of
wall street journal which is owned by the parent company of this network. a stanford researcher found that the companies used a special code to trick the security setup on apple s safari web browser. it comes standard with apple computers as well as iphones and ipads. google removed the phone after they were called for comment. but they said the report mischaracterizes what is really going on. laura ingle live with more. how invasive has this been? if you use the safari web browser there may have been periods of time where advertisers were able to see exactly what you were searching for even though your privacy settings specifically told apple you wanted this type of tracking disabled. in a statement to fox news google reps explained we used known safari functionalities to provide features that signed in google users had enabled.
google is tracking those who use the safari web browser. even if they have seatings to block it. google songs by announcing it immediately halted the secret tracking and the company pointed out personal information was never at risk. today a spokesman for apple said, and i m quoting, we are aware that some third parties are circumventing safari s private features and we re working to put a stop to it. joining us now, our legal panel is back. steve and randy. jeremy, i guess the question is, do the privacy settings on our phones simply don t work? in some ways that is exactly what we re seeing. one of the privacy settings, at least. and really, this is an interesting case of what we want versus what the advertisers want. the advertisers want to sell us things in a better way. they want to gather as much information on us as possible.