August 7, 2006 – MichaelZimmer.org

AOL’s Apology Misses the Mark

Posted by Michael Zimmeron August 7, 2006in Privacy, Search Engines

AOL has issued an apology for releasing the logs of nearly 20 million web searches documenting three months of activity by 650,000 AOL users: "This was a screw-up, and we're angry and upset about it. It was an innocent enough…

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AOL Data Includes Social Security Numbers

Posted by Michael Zimmeron August 7, 2006in Privacy, Search Engines1 Comment

Have you ever searched for your social security number to see if it happened to be posted online somewhere? Have you searched for it along with your name? Many do, and it has apparently been confirmed that the massive database…

AOL Proudly Releases Massive Amounts of Private Data

Posted by Michael Zimmeron August 7, 2006in Privacy, Search Engines8 Comments

[I've pasted this in its entirety from TechCrunch - unbelievable] AOL must have missed the uproar over the DOJ’s demand for “anonymized” search data last year that caused all sorts of pain for Microsoft and Google. That’s the only way…