Edible Apple

Bloomberg reports that the FTC may slap Google with fines that may reach into the tens of millions of dollars as a result of its efforts to circumvent a privacy restriction on Apple’s Safari browser.

The FTC is preparing to allege that Mountain View, California-based Google deceived consumers and violated terms of a consent decree signed with the commission last year when it planted so-called cookies on Safari, bypassing Apple software’s privacy settings, the person said.

“We will of course cooperate with any officials who have questions,” Chris Gaither, a Google spokesman, said in an e- mail, declining to comment further.