Comments on: You never had privacy anyway

By: Cornflakes

Cornflakes — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:18:26 +0000

A *quick* site where you can search the AOL Logs for yourself, is here:

http://www.frogspy.com

By: ty

ty — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:38:57 +0000

A site where you can search the data is here:

http://www.datablunder.com/logitems/query/

By: Blogspotting

Blogspotting — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:51:23 +0000

AOL’s data gush: Help, they’re reading my postcards!

The fuss about AOL’s data gusher reminds me of a story I heard a week ago about the advent of penny postcards in the 19th century. They provided a handy communications tool, and cost half as much to send as…

By: Leathern.com

Leathern.com — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:29:37 +0000

AOL search data disclosure – does anyone care?

Referencing my colleague Greg’s comments about the AOL search data sharing ‘incident’ as it may come to be known, I had to ask the question if anyone will really care about this (I emphasize the word really). Again and again…

By: Zoli's Blog

Zoli's Blog — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 18:26:18 +0000

AOL Just Did the Unthinkable – Boycott AOL?

(Updated)Thank you, Google for resisting the DOJ’s effort to obtain user search data. You put up a good fight to protect our privacy, and you won. Too bad it was all in vain.
AOL, in blatant violation of its users privacy just released the log of 3 m…

By: John K

John K — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:02:09 +0000

I’m more shocked at the knee-jerk reaction of the web2.0 hypesters…

Guys like Mike Arrington should know that this type of data is in lots of hands already. Anyone who distributes a web toolbar has a hell of a lot more info than this… Explain to me how is it a privacy violation?

I’d think it’s a good thing that AOL contributes this data publicly rather than sell it or hide it…