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Old 08-07-2006, 06:07 AM  
darksoul
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AOL users - Your privacy has been exposed

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When everyone was worried about what Google can do with our search log AOL
decided to release the data to everyone at their own will. As stated on TechChurch a 500MB archive containing 20M search records from over 500k aol users was available for download from AOL?s site.

To protect user?s privacy AOL usernames were replaced with a unique id, the problem here is that even with this protection messure you can still find all searches a user has done and with a bit of skill you can match usernames to the ids provided by AOL.
http://www.seowannabe.com/2006/08/07...earch-queries/

I hope none of you searched for cp on aol in the past three months
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