EFF Files Complaint with FTC Over AOL Data Leak

Quincy A. writes "Last week's exposure of search data on over 500,000 AOL users was a gigantic embarrassment for the company. It may be about to get worse, as the EFF has filed a complaint with the FTC over the incident. 'Citing AOL's own Network Privacy Policy, the EFF says that the company failed to "implement reasonable and appropriate measures to protect personal consumer information from public disclosure."' Among other things, the complaint asks AOL to notify all users affected by the data disclosure via certified mail and provide free credit monitoring for a year."

Some weird people in the world, that's for sure

[Anonymous Coward]

For example:

select * from aolsearches where anonid = 3620882;

yields a very strange individual... some brief examples (shortened for brevity... it's MUCH longer than this):

| 3620882 | bank robber hide-outs                       | 2006-03-01 22:22:04 |
| 3620882 | male sissy panty stories                    | 2006-03-01 22:35:41 |
| 3620882 | big bosom mothers                           | 2006-03-01 22:47:58 |
| 3620882 | sissy nightgown training                    | 2006-03-02 11:46:49 |
| 3620882 | special female training of sissy men        | 2006-03-02 17:16:24 |
| 3620882 | tight laced girdles                         | 2006-03-05 12:33:09 |
| 3620882 | baptist church directory                    | 2006-03-07 18:56:13 |
| 3620882 | pink panty discipline                       | 2006-03-07 19:41:53 |
| 3620882 | old curvy women                             | 2006-03-10 12:38:47 |
| 3620882 | independent baptist church directory        | 2006-03-12 11:45:44 |
| 3620882 | westboro baptist church                     | 2006-03-23 13:51:49 |
| 3620882 | baptist college directory                   | 2006-03-25 19:44:22 |
| 3620882 | adult diaper parties                        | 2006-04-04 13:51:30 |
| 3620882 | colorado mining claims for sale             | 2006-04-16 13:00:25 |
| 3620882 | husbands that are sissy                     | 2006-04-28 20:13:11 |
| 3620882 | very large bosoms                           | 2006-05-18 21:38:57 |
| 3620882 | how to make gun silencers                   | 2006-05-20 12:45:00 |
| 3620882 | male maid training                          | 2006-05-30 12:15:49 |

Really, I think of myself as a pretty tolerant person, but this seriously makes me wonder what kind of weird individuals roam this planet.

Re:Donate to these people

[Anonymous Coward]

But they drink the blood of Christian babies!

Re:Some weird people in the world, that's for sure

[Anonymous Coward]

Please remove this post.
    Sincerely,
    Jerry Falwell