Google set up its search software so that it would bypass certain security software in Apple’s mobile OS. That gave the search company access to personal information from iPhone and iPad users. Apple software specifically blocked access to this date
According to The Wall Street Journal
Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.’s Web browser on their iPhones and computers—tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked.
The companies used special computer code that tricks Apple’s Safari Web-browsing software into letting them monitor many users. Safari, the most widely used browser on mobile devices, is designed to block such tracking by default.
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