Google Was Secretly Planting Cookies on Millions of iPhone Browsers
cryptogon.com – June 28, 2012

From: How a Lone Grad Student Scooped the Government and What It Means for Your Online Privacy – www.propublica.org – June 28, 2012

Google Said to Face Fine by U.S. Over Apple Safari Breach
www.bloomberg.com – May 5, 2012

“The FTC is preparing to allege that Mountain View, California-based Google deceived consumers and violated terms of a consent decree signed with the commission last year when it planted so-called cookies on Safari, bypassing Apple software’s privacy settings, the person said.”

Another Google privacy invasion:

How a Lone Grad Student Scooped the Government and What It Means for Your Online Privacy – www.propublica.org – June 28, 2012

“A privacy official in Germany forced Google to hand over the hard drives of cars equipped with 360-degree digital cameras that were taking pictures for its Street View program. The Germans discovered that Google wasn’t just shooting photos: The cars downloaded a panoply of sensitive data, including emails and passwords, from open Wi-Fi networks. Google had secretly done the same in the United States…”

Hamburg Prosecutors Investigating Google over Data Capture
www.spiegel.de – May 20, 2010