the biggest online advertising firms. bill: what can people do to avoid being tracked anything? there is not much you can do to avoid it. if you re on a computer you switch to a different web browser and get off safari. if you are concerned don t surf internet on your iphone. there are other online companies including vibrant media using the work around code. it is not just a google thing. tech experts point out apple was quick to install the do not track features in iphones and devices and is not to blame here. as we learn more and more what web sites are doing, a lot of consumers don t like what we re finding out. if you want to learn more how to manage your settings our tech editor says go to the website, dnt mozilla.org which has a on the features you want to check out. bill: or go to the library. thanks, laura. he says the white house is just lying to the american people. congressman paul ryan calling out the obama budget
active. laura ink dpel on the story live with more. what do we know more about it? good morning, bill. google has been bypassing privacy settings on apple iphones and mac computers if you re using the safari web browser, obviously a popular web browser. according to the wall street journal google s code that keeps you logged in to allow other web sites to see information about you even though your privacy settings specifically tell apple you wanted this type of tracking disabled. when notified about the issue google told the wall street journal they immediately disabled the code and issued this statement to fox news. quote, we used known safari functionality to provide features that signed in google users had enabled. it is important to stress these advertising cookies do not collect personal information. people think about google as a search engine. in reality google is one of