A few blogs ago I posted about Google being able to bypass privacy in the safari browser. Well now Microsoft is jumping into the game saying that Google is also manipulating IE’s default privacy restrictions in order to get by user preferences about cookies. Google did not take this news lightly as it has responded to this by stating that Microsoft’s P3P cookie technology is widely non-operational and that this has been around since 2002 and Google also cited a 2010 Carnegie Mellon research paper that states over 11,000 websites don’t use valid P3P policies. Google even brings Facebook and Amazon to the forefront as websites that use similar ways to bypass the P3P stating that Facebook’s policy is as follows “the P3P standard is now out of date and does not reflect technologies that are currently in use on the web.” With Microsoft trying to capitalize on what bad press Google may have gotten over the privacy issues it looks like Google is firing back stating that problem isn’t with Google but with Microsoft, a bold move that looks as if they have the stats to back it up which makes Microsoft’s boasting of IE9 a bit premature.