Google is under fire again and this time it has been found guilty of deliberately overriding internet browser Safari's privacy settings. 
The Wall Street Journal has named Google along with three other online ad networks guilty of violating privacy settings. Other three companies are Gannett PointRoll, Media Innovation Group and Vibrant Media.
The report says that Google plants cookies on browsers for tracking their online activities, despite the fact that Safari explicitly blocks cookies "from third party and advertisers". This has been made possible thanks to Google adding "coding to some of its ads that made Safari think that a person was submitting an invisible form to Google. Safari would then let Google install a cookie on the phone or computer.”
Though most of these cookies are meant to expire in a day or two, but due to Safari settings, it becomes very easy for advertisers to add extra cookies, once they have planted at least one cookie. So, while Google is clearly at fault for sidestepping users' settings, Apple too need to take the part of blame for its lax security measures.
The report has been prepared by Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer in collaboration with WSJ technical adviser Ashkan Soltani. The report also confirmed that about a third of top 100 websites contained such malicious code.