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Christopher Soghoian??€”a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School—has developed a browser extension that prevents advertising networks from tracking Internet usage habits. The Google plug-in, entitled Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out (TACO), allows users to opt out of 27 advertising networks. The program prevents advertising companies from using Internet users’ past history to place user-specific advertisements. The extension had been downloaded by over 1000 people as of Monday night, according to Soghoian. Soghoian said he aims to raise awareness of Internet privacy issues with...

Author: By Michael J Ding, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Program Halts Online Advertisement Tracking | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

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