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Kevom 1 year 11 months ago
Three AOL subscribers who suddenly found records of their Internet searches widely distributed online are suing the company under privacy laws and are seeking an end to its retention of search-related data.
The lawsuit is believed to be the first in the wake of AOL's intentional release of some 19 million search requests made over a three-month period by more than 650,000 subscribers, including the three plaintiffs - two unnamed Californians and Kasadore Ramkissoon of Richmond County, N.Y.
Filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Oakland,...
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Kevom 1 year 11 months ago
AOL will hire its first chief privacy officer. This comes a month after it announced that two of its employees were fired and the chief technology officer resigned over the release of Web search data from more than 600,000 AOL members.
The release of the data, for scientific purposes, prompted widespread criticism from privacy advocates and Congress and could lead to an FTC complaint.
AOL announced that it would hire a chief privacy officer, but didn't say when or who, in a company-wide memo from Chief Executive Jonathan Miller,...
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Greg Linden reports that AOL has shut down their research department, following the big search privacy scandal that emanated from that department. Now, one commenter says on of the people they fired after the scandal basically was the whole department, but if AOL was serious about trying some research efforts, it is still disheartening to see them give up on it. AOL has so much customer data that could be a wealth of knowledge in the hands of the right researchers. Maybe they could outsource all their customer data to Google, which owns 5% of...
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The heads are rolling at AOL over the recent search engine data clusterfuck.
CTO Maureen Govern and two other employees are now history. John McKinley, AOL’s former CTO, will take over on an interim basis.
According Andrew Weinstein this entire event was caused by a single clueless researcher and a complete lack of oversight by his managers.
AOL apologized for releasing search log data on subscribers that had been intended for use with the company's newly launched research site.
"This was a screw-up, and we're angry and upset about it. It was an innocent enough attempt to reach out to the academic community with new research tools, but it was obviously not appropriately vetted, and if it had been, it would have been stopped in an instant," AOL, a unit of Time Warner, said in a statement. "Although there was no personally identifiable data linked to these accounts, we're...
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Check out the search history for user 17556639, most recent search is at the bottom of the list.. Does this look like the search history of a user wanting to do something bad?
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This is a blatant violation of users' privacy.
AOL just released the logs of all searches done by 500,000 of their users over the course of three months earlier this year. That means that if you happened to be randomly chosen as one of these users, everything you searched for from March to May (2006) is now public information on the internet.
This was not a leak - it was intentional. In their desperation to gain recognition from the research community, AOL decided they would compromise their integrity to provide a data set that might...
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