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<img src='/images/misc/radar.gif' style='float:right' vspace='8' hspace='8'> <b>NEW YORK (AP) -- AOL released the Internet search terms that more than 650,000 of its subscribers entered over a three-month period and admitted Monday that what it originally intended as a gesture to researchers amounted to a privacy breach and a mistake</b><br /><br />Tuesday, August 8, 2006; Posted: 9:42 a.m. EDT (13:42 GMT)<br /> <br /> Although AOL had substituted numeric IDs for the subscribers' real user names, the company acknowledged the search queries themselves may contain personally identifiable data.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ~ As if they needed more fuel to stoke their fire of <br /> unpopularity.....<br /><br /> <div class='newslinks'><img src='http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/public/style_images/1/cs_page.gif'> <b>Link: <a href='http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/08/08/aol.search.privacy.ap/index.html?section=cnn_tech' target='_blank'><font color='red'>Full Article @ CNN.com</font></a><br />
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Aol Says Privacy Breach Was A Mistake
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Posted 09 August 2006 - 09:43 PM
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