Attorneys General Allege PointRoll Inc. Circumvented Privacy Settings to Expose More Consumers to Internet Ads
Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—December 11, 2014. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced a $750,000 settlement with PointRoll Inc. resolving a multistate investigation over whether the company violated consumers’ privacy by unlawfully circumventing privacy settings in Apple’s Safari web browsers.
PointRoll is a digital advertising and technical services company owned by the Gannett Corp. Madigan and her counterparts from five other states alleged…
