Submitted by Ryan Weal on Wed, 08/09/2006 - 18:40
For AOL users out there, hold your breath. Your information is out and everyone knows what you're thinking. If you are like user 927 you might have some things to hide. This week AOL released a lot of user data with hopes that it would stimulate some new research on their clients. With only a user ID nobody can be identified, right? Wrong. Search patterns can easily identify a user, especially if they are visiting sites made by friends and family. After a lot of public outcry AOL decided to pull the data. For reference, Google has been down this road before but they are continuing to log user searches anyway.
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