Comments on: AOL Proudly Releases Massive Amounts of Private Data

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Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:03:35 +0000

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Is Behavioral Targeting Evil? | Infusionsoft Blog — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:36:58 +0000

[...] and application of behaviorally targeted advertising has led to unwanted disclosure of PII. (The AOL Search Data Scandal was the best case study of this.) Through long-term data retention, the risk of undesired [...]

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Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:00:12 +0000

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Estimating Potential SEO Traffic « Web Design Philippines — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:59:36 +0000

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Estimating Search Traffic by Rank » Murmurs - SEO, SEM and Web Analytics Musings — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:59:07 +0000

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Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:01:38 +0000

[...] for one, is no stranger to managing and mishandling user data, especially in the aftermath of a 2006 ‘scandal’ involving search records for more than 600,000 users. Since then, the company has lived by its publicly posted privacy practices and has internally [...]

By: sikiş

sikiş — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:24:52 +0000

Further Update: Sometime after 7 pm the download link went down as well, but there is at least one mirror site. AOL is in damage control mode – the fact that they took the data down shows that someone there had the sense to realize how destructive this was, but it is also an admission of wrongdoing of sorts. Either way, the data is now out there for anyone that wants to use (or abuse) it. Thanks

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Interactief Arnhem » Data, anyone? — Sat, 09 May 2009 09:52:34 +0000

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By: My Place in the Crowd » Blog Archive » Promises, promises: what information is being shared with third parties?

Fri, 08 May 2009 18:46:22 +0000

[...] don’t explain what they’ve done to make that information “anonymous.” As we know from AOL’s debacle, a company’s promise that information has been made anonymous is no guarantee that it’ll stay [...]

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Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:09:53 +0000

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Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:42:44 +0000

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By: Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?

Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA? — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:23:13 +0000

[...] despite any precautions Last.fm might take? (It wouldn’t be unprecedented—remember that leaked AOL search data a few years ago?) I sent Garrett an email about 5 hours ago asking him some of these [...]

By: A chance to play with big data | Locuras del web

A chance to play with big data | Locuras del web — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:57:29 +0000

[...] move seems to be a response to a bunch of inflammatory blog posts ([1] [2] [3] [4] [5]) that make outlandish claims like: AOL has released very private data about its [...]

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» Can the search engines tell who you are? — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:57:52 +0000

[...] 2006, for instance, AOL made 20 million web queries from 650,000 AOL users public. The data was anonymized for researchers, but experts soon found ways [...]

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By: 5 Reasons why releasing AOL logs was a BAD idea + Mirrors! | LuisCosio.com

5 Reasons why releasing AOL logs was a BAD idea + Mirrors! | LuisCosio.com — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:19:38 +0000

[...] said in Techcrunch, people often search their family names, and if you combine it with a query such as “buy [...]

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WiFi Technology — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:40:20 +0000

Aol is mostly used in usa rest of the world got away with it..

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Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:46:55 +0000

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[...] 12, 2008 The AOL and Netflix privacy incidents have shown that people responsible for data release at these [...]