. >> our guest reporter this week is paul kirby senior editor of telecommunications report. what should they have done in your view? if they said here's what we want to do, you can opt out of this? >> i think the best way to have done it would have been opt in. google said we have a new approach we think is going to provide benefit, you'll get more advertising you'd be interested in, we understand we have a commitment to you now in terms of our current privacy policy, but we would like to give you the opportunity to choose our new ingraitd user platform and users would say that sound good, we will sign up and certainly we would not have objected if gaog el had done that pause so much of the internet is about choice. i think the less alternative would have been if faog el said we want to do this, we understand some people might not we will let those folks opt out so before march 1st you can make a choice this is if you want to opt out this is how you do it the gaog el didn't even do that and i think the other point making here differing earlier with the earlier comment when f

. >> host: our guest reporter this week is paul kirby, senior editor of "telecommunications reports." >> host: what should they have done, marc, in you view? okay, here's what we want to do, you can opt out of this, or how should they have done it? >> guest: i think the best way would have been by opt-in. google could have said to users, listen, we have a new approach, we think it's going to provide only benefit to you, we think you'll get advertising you're more interested in. we understand that we have a chiment to you right now in terms of our current privacy policies, but we'd like to give you the opportunity to choose our new integrated google platform, and users might have said, hey, that sounds good, i'll sign up. and certainly we would not have objected if google had done that because so much of the internet is about choice. i think the less good internship would internship -- alternative would have been for google to say, listen, we really want to do this, we respect that some people might not want to, we'll let those folks opt out. so before march 1st you can make a choice i

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