Aol did not identify users in the report, but personally identifiable information was present in many of the queries However, the public release meant that the entire internet could see the results rather than a select number of academics This allowed some users to be identified by their search queries.
AOL Search Data Leak - YouTube
Files of the aol search data leak which occurred back in august 2006.
But what do companies do if an internal user accidently causes a data leak
As such, the oblivious insider threat continue to wreak havoc. A cached copy of the page is here Aol must have missed the uproar over the doj's demand for anonymized search data last year that caused all sorts of pain for microsoft and google. Aol's actions demonstrate a shocking disregard for user privacy
Search terms can expose the most intimate details of a person's life These details can be embarrassing and even cause great harm Would you want strangers to know where you or your child work or go to school How about everyone seeing search queries that reference your financial information, medical history, sexual orientation.
The something awful aol search log special (in which they posted the weirdest search histories from aol's 2006 leak) was the funniest thing i have ever read in my life, and i revisit it every few months… it's gone now
Did anyone save it anywhere Posted by wheatlets to computers & internet (4 answers total) 3 users marked this as a favorite Buried in a list of 20 million web search queries collected by aol and recently released on the internet is user no The number was assigned by the company to protect the searcher's.
The aol search data leak was the release, in august 2006, of detailed search logs by aol of a large number of aol users The release was intentional and intended for research purposes
