Adam Fields (weblog)

This blog is largely deprecated, but is being preserved here for historical interest. Check out my index page at adamfields.com for more up to date info. 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 or app.net.

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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