Adam Fields (weblog)

This blog is a hobby. My main trade is technology strategy, process/project management, and performance optimization consulting, with a focus on enterprise and open source CMS and related technologies. More information. I write periodic long pieces here, shorter stuff goes on twitter.

8/7/2006

AOL releases “anonymized” search data for 500k users

Filed under: — adam @ 11:03 am

This is a serious breach of user privacy, and I can’t imagine there won’t be lawsuits over this.

Either they didn’t think this through, or this is the best way they could think of to raise a public outrage.

http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200608/msg00027.html

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One Response to “AOL releases “anonymized” search data for 500k users”

  1. Peter Says:
    August 7th, 2006 at 11:17 am

    I’m gonna take this user data i just downloaded from aol and upload it right back up into my new free 5 GB of aol web space. shweet!

    p.s. i thought, errr…knew, i was a bit twisted, but i got nothing on these aol sickos. holy cow. found some great new sites, though! :D

    crackin myself up over here. aohell. awesome.

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