Zoli’s Blog :: AOL Just Did the Unthinkable
Posted on August 7, 2006
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Zoli has a bunch of links on the AOL gaffe (the most recent one) where they mistakenly put up a bunch of search history data for download. I know there are a lot of people that are genuinely concerned about privacy issues and the amount of data that search companies accumulate, but I have to ask myself whether or not I care that Google, AOL, or anyone else takes search history data and makes it available to third parties. I did consider the issue and I just don’t care. I realize that in AOL’s case the “anonymized” may have screen names, but even then so what? Maybe I’m just living the “you don’t have any privacy on the net so get over it” quote McNealy famously uttered a few years ago.
In the event anyone in interested to know what I looked at on the web today, here’s a spreadsheet that I dumped my browser history into. Knock yourself out. BTW, I’m in the market a new cell phone, if anyone has a good deal on the phones I looked at, e-mail me.
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