Microsoft: Google bypassing IE security too

Microsoft says it has discovered evidence that Google is bypassing security settings in Internet Explorer in order to track users' movements. The controversy comes less than a week after Google, Facebook and other advertising networks was caught circumnavigating users privacy settings on Apple's Safari and Safari Mobile browser. Microsoft had initially reacted to the news by trumpeting IE9s safety, but a blog post on Monday revealed its users had also fallen victim to the snooping, albeit in a slightly different way. Stating intent "Google is employing similar methods (to what it employed with Safari) to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies," said IE boss Dean Hachamovitch. "We've also contacted Google and asked them to commit to honoring P3P privacy settings for users of all browsers. "IE blocks third-party cookies unless the site presents a P3P Compact Policy Statement indicating how the site will use the cookie and that the site's use does not include tracking the user. "Google's P3P policy causes Internet Explorer to accept Google's cookies even though the policy does not state Google's intent."