Google, AOL execs: Opting out of targeted ads OK by us

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Thu, 04/17/2008 - 11:30am

WASHINGTON--As advocacy groups bristle at online advertisers' increasingly sophisticated targeting techniques, top privacy lawyers at Google and AOL on Thursday backed "opt-out" technology as a way to give Internet surfers more say in the process--although they admitted it's far from perfect.

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