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Verizon to pay $1.4M in 'supercookie' FCC settlement

2016-03-07 18:47:50| Telecom - Topix.net

" Verizon will pay a $1.35 million fine over its "supercookie" that followed phone customers on the Internet and the government says it's required to get an explicit "yes" from customers for some kinds of tracking. The supercookies, which the Federal Communications Commission said Verizon started using in 2012, landed their name because they were hard to block.

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