The FTC has reached a settlement with Epic Marketplace, a large online ad network, related to what the FTC says is the company's practice of sniffing users' browser history for the purpose of serving them targeted ads related to a variety of sensitive topics. The settlement bars Epic from performing history sniffing and requires the company to destroy all of the data it's collected from consumers up to this point through history sniffing.The consent decree from the FTC is the latest in a series of actions from various agencies regarding the practice of history sniffing and tracking users across the Web. The FTC has been focusing on this practice