Google Inc. was slapped with a huge penalty from the FTC for privacy violations. It is close to a deal to pay $22.5 million to settle charges related to its surreptitious bypassing of the privacy
settings of millions of Apple Inc. users, according to officials briefed on the settlement terms. The fine is expected to be the largest penalty ever levied on a single company by the FTC. It offers
the latest sign of the FTC's stepped-up approach to policing online privacy violations.
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