The controversy comes less than a week after Google, Facebook and other advertising networks was caught circumnavigating users privacy settings on Apple's Safari and Safari Mobile browser.Microsoft had initially reacted to the news by trumpeting IE9s safety, but a blog post on Monday revealed its users had also fallen victim to the snooping, albeit in a slightly different way.Stating intentGoogle is employing similar methods (to what it employed with Safari) to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies, said IE boss Dean Hachamovitch.