I wasn't aware of this until today during my nightly news round up. Apparently last week, AOL released 3 months worth of searches fore about 650,000 of their users. The results were anonymous-ized (I can't spell sorry) and can't be linked to particular people... but uh, that doesn't make me feel any better. Just look at the links and you'll see what I mean. First two are links to news articles about it. Last one is an example of why this is an extremelly terrible idea. Btw, I'm sorry if this is a repost, I searched and found nothing of the sort but my searching can suck sometimes.
- http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/0 … index.html
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/06/ao … arch-data/
- http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/ … it-murder/
Update: Found another interesting link. Some reporters set out to match a user log to a person and looks like they were able to do so. So much for privacy.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/techn … nted=print
- http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/0 … index.html
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/06/ao … arch-data/
- http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/ … it-murder/
Update: Found another interesting link. Some reporters set out to match a user log to a person and looks like they were able to do so. So much for privacy.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/techn … nted=print
Last edited by GotMex? (2006-08-15 00:19:27)
