Security News > 2020 > January > Google: Flaws in Apple’s Private-Browsing Technology Allow for Third-Party Tracking
Technology Apple designed for its Safari web browser to protect users from being tracked when they surf the web may actually do just the opposite, according to new research from Google.
Google researchers have identified a number of security flaws in Safari's Intelligent Tracking Protection that allow people's browsing behavior to be tracked by third parties, according to a report published in the Financial Times Wednesday.
Google researchers discovered five different types of potential attack on the vulnerabilities they found in ITP that could allow for third parties like digital advertisers to obtain "Sensitive private information about the user's browsing habits," according to the report.
The forthcoming Google research is certainly not the first time the tech giant has called out Apple for security flaws in the company's software, as the rival companies long have sparred over which offers safer and more secure technology to consumers.
Apple later accused Google of spreading misinformation and fear over the vulnerabilities and the risk involved, needlessly panicking iPhone customers over flaws Apple already had patched that also were limited in scope to less than a dozen websites focused on content related to the Uighur ethic minority community in northwestern China.