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AOL Data Breach Causes Privacy Group to File Complaint With FTC

Press release: “The World Privacy Forum announced [August 8, 2006] that it would be filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission about the posting by AOL of a portion of its users’ search data on the Internet. While the data was not expressly identified by name, the search queries themselves included in some cases personally identifiable information such as individuals’ names, Social Security Numbers, and myriad other personal information.”

  • AOL apologizes for release of user search data
  • AOLSearchLogs.com – This is the web interface to AOL’s 500K user search logs which was released, and later retracted. [Michael Ravnitzky]
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