Verizon Wireless to pay $1.35M fine to settle 'supercookie' privacy case

Verizon Wireless will pay $1.35 million to settle a privacy case with the federal government over the cell provider's use of "supercookies."

The US' largest cell provider's with more than 140 million users will also be subject to a three-year consent decree after the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) said the company violated the privacy of its customers.

The FCC said that Verizon failed to tell customers that it inserted tracking code into web traffic to identify them.

The code was part of a program that helped the company deliver targeted ads to its broadband customers from the company and its partners between late 2012 until 2014.

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