 "AOL Apologises For Releasing Search Data of Users")
AOL has admitted to infringing on the privacy of its users by releasing search queries of more than 650,000 of its US subscribers. Although the company has stated that it was an “innocent attempt to reach out to the academic community with research tools”, it has apologized for the breach of privacy. While it is not clear who exactly those ‘researchers’ were, and how they intended to use the data, AOL has assured its subscribers that none of the users’ names were associated with the search terms.
The search data, containing more than 19 million queries and information on what search terms were used, was not detected for 10 days after it had been posted on the AOL research site. The search file also included date and time of the search queries and whether the user clicked on any of the results, raising concerns that the queries may contain personally identifiable data.
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