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Michael Zimmer, PhD, is a privacy and data ethics scholar at Marquette University

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Day: August 10, 2006

10Aug

Because it hurts people

Posted by Michael Zimmeron August 10, 2006in Privacy, Search Engines

Why was  the AOL data dump wrong? "Because it hurts people. It makes them feel defensive about their own thoughts and ideas," says Mary Hodder. She's right.

10Aug
1 comment on “More (disturbing) AOL profiles”

More (disturbing) AOL profiles

Posted by Michael Zimmeron August 10, 2006in Privacy, Search Engines1 Comment

Declan McCullagh at CNet has posted many more, often disturbing, profiles of users gleaned from the AOL search data leak. Examples include: Based on the number of local searches, AOL user 1515830 appears to be a resident of [personal information…

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