The Wall Street Journal reports that Google has been bypassing privacy settings in Safari intended to block websites from tracking user activity across the Internet. Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer discovered that Google had been implementing code that bypasses Safari's user-determined privacy settings, and the Journal's own researcher independently confirmed Mayer's findings. This code affected both Safari on the Mac and its mobile counterpart on iOS devices According to the Journal, Google's code "exploited a loophole in [Safari's] privacy settings." By default, both Safari and Mobile Safari block cookies designed to track user activity unless that user specifically interacts with
