Archive for August 14th, 2006

AOL Exposes Itself (and it’s users)

Posted in All Posts, Privacy on August 14th, 2006

If AOL is your Internet Service Provider, you ought to be feeling a little naked!

The following is from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Were You Exposed by AOL’s Data Leak?

Recently, AOL violated the privacy of 650,000 users by publicly releasing three months of search query records. Search terms can expose the most intimate details of a person’s life. These records could be connected back to you and cause you great harm. Would you want strangers to know where you or your child work or go to school? How about everyone seeing search queries that reference your financial information, medical history, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation?”

AOL customers need to know if they are personally affected — and AOL should be told to rectify the damage done and to improve its privacy-protections in the future.

For more info:

AOL's Data Leak: Were You Exposed?  

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