http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18782224Google is set to pay the largest fine ever imposed on a single company by the US Federal Trade Commission, according to the Wall Street Journal.
It says the search giant is close to agreeing to pay $22.5m (£14.5m) to settle a privacy complaint.
It follows an earlier report which revealed Google had bypassed a "do not track" setting selected in Apple's Safari web browser.
Google has indicated that its action had been an unintentional mistake.
The Wall Street Journal revealed in February that a Stanford University researcher had noticed that Google had exploited a loophole in Safari.
It allowed Google's cookies to be installed via adverts on popular websites even if users' browsers' preferences had been set to reject them. This allowed the firm to track people's web-use habits even if they had not given it permission to do so.
Google says no personal information was collected.
Google set to pay cookie privacy fine to FTC
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