AOL’s search data release yields its first privacy victim

by Matt Craven

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  1. By TipOfTheIceBerg posted on August 9, 2006 at 12:55 am
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    And where there aren’t positive I.D.s (like that poor woman) there will be “circumstantial” evidence used to try to pin searches to names, with the accused having no way of proving or disproving it.

  2. By TourPro posted on August 9, 2006 at 5:08 am
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    Oh yeah, I’ve already found cross-dressing priests, doctors into “taboo sex”, and other really disturbing stuff. And it confirms just what I expected – the internets is some wierd place.