Software giant, Microsoft has accused rival, Google of bypassing user privacy settings with its Internet Explorer.

Microsoft's IE Corporate Vice President Dean Hachamovitch said in blog titled, "Google bypassing user privacy settings" that after team noted Google engages in bypassing user privacy settings on Safari, it found that Google was trying to do the same thing with the users of Internet Explorer as well.

"Google is employing similar methods to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies," he said

Google was detected bypassing default privacy settings in the Safari browser for serving tracking cookies. Google claimed that the incident is only limited to the browser but Microsoft took note of the incident and claimed similar efforts by Google on its own browser.

Hachamovitch said that the default configuration on the Internet Explorer blocks third-party cookies. It only permits such cookies when they come with a Platform for Privacy Preferences Project Compact Policy Statement, which assures that the site does not use them to track users. Microsoft accused Google of sending texts that tricks browsers into believing that the cookies will not be used to track users.

Microsoft has now updated the Tracking Protection Lists in IE9 to prevent such tracking and has urged Google to commit to honoring P3P privacy settings for users of all browsers.