August 10, 2006

AOL releases private information

Well, sort of. Tons of search queries anyway.

Here is an article by Bruce Sterling about it. It suffers from Sterling's notoriously shonky formatting and quoting, but it's worth a read.

The part at the end, a news article about a specific AOL user's search queries, is funny as well as disturbing.

Posted by pearce at August 10, 2006 11:48 AM