It has deals with companies such as Dell and HP to embed its tracking agent into their computers' boot-up software, where it is more difficult for a thief to remove than from the hard drive.
Despite these promises, the FTC charged that Google placed advertising tracking cookies on consumers' computers, in many cases by circumventing the Safari browser's default cookie-blocking setting.
In that instance, Google used special computer code to install tracking files known as cookies on some people's computers even if the device was set to block such tracking.