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From cookies to comic books.

In the next 10 minutes, we'll get the lowdown on what's up in the world.

I'm Bethany Van Delft, and this is the 10 News.

Internet company, Google, is shaking things up with some big changes to how the search engine shares your data.

The company recently announced its browser will no longer allow cookies. No, not the delicious kind of cookies. Cookies!

No, not the delicious kind of cookies.

Cookies are little pieces of code that advertisers use to record your online search history.

Then they use that information to show you ads for things they think you might be interested in.

Let's say at one point you Googled coolest podcast for kids. Eventually, you might start getting ads with my face in them.

Makes sense to me. There's been a lot of concern lately, though, about who gets to see your

search history and how that information is used.

And Google isn't the only company to take steps to protect users' privacy.

Apple is rolling out a new system on iPhones that requires apps to ask your permission to collect certain data, like your location, for instance.

These moves may mean major changes for how companies advertise online.

March is the National Reading Month. To celebrate, I sat down with author Clara Bell Ortega

to talk about her hit book Ghost Squad and how great readers can become great writers.

Thank you so much for joining us. This is amazing. Thank you for having me. I'm a big fan of the show.

My name is Claribel Eritaga and I write books for kids. My first book, Ghost Squad, came out last year.

And it's a spooky Halloween adventure about a girl named Lucelli Luna, who accidentally unleashes some evil spirits on her

city of St. Augustine and has to send them back into the underworld with her best friend, Sid,

a fat cat named Chunk, and a witch named Babette before the full moon on Halloween.

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