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The TSA Has Your Reading List
According to the Washington Post, the TSA is compiling extensive traveler records that can track passenger reading preferences. The Automated Targeting System is ostensibly designed to help officials ferret out terrorists; citizens who recently asked the government for records of their travel found that the databases also contains: "a description of a book on marijuana that one of them carried and small flashlights bearing the symbol of a marijuana leaf." Our government's long maw even reaches abroad to gather information on flights that don't brush against U.S. airspace.Ann Harrison, the communications director for a technology firm in Silicon Valley who was among those who obtained their personal files and provided them to The Post, said she was taken aback to see that her dossier contained data on her race and on a European flight that did not begin or end in the United States or connect to a U.S.-bound flight.More »
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How Do Drug Companies Know What Your Doctor Is Prescribing?
The AMA sells information about what your doctor is prescribing says an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle. More »
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US Gov To Compile And Share Database Of Flier Personal Information
According to the Washington Post, the United States and the European Union have agreed to compile and share a database of information on consumers who travel on aircrafts between the two continents. More »
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AOL Research Closes
According to Greg Linden, founder of Findory and search industry professional, the AOL subdivision for releasing the user search histories has folded. More »
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Chowdhury wasn't just "some rogue researcher" at AOL, according to his CV he was "Chief Architect." As in, Chief Architect of Information. Among the accomplishments he achieved since May 2000, he includes:
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Who is Adhur Chowdhury?
Chowdhury wasn't just "some rogue researcher" at AOL, according to his CV he was "Chief Architect." As in, Chief Architect of Information. Among the accomplishments he achieved since May 2000, he includes:
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AOL Higherups OK'd Search Record Release
The AOL company researcher who released the data is one Abdur Chowdhury, pictured at right, looking like a douche. More »
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AOL Just Wanted to Help Out The Elbow-Patch Jacket Set
The AOL user search queries data leaked on the internet were apparently posted by a technician who uploaded the data without vetting it through in-house privacy department, company spokesman Andrew Weinstein told WP. More »
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AOL Apologizes For Splooging Your Searches
A boon for search engine researches quickly tumbled into a privacy snafu as AOL released search query results for 650,000+ users. AOL expression contrition and dismay in the quotes provided by spokesman Andrew Weinstein who said: More »
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Here's another AOL user who should definitely be manacled to a rusty pole and beaten with barb wire. Dirty thoughts! Dirty! Dirty!
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AOL User 231392 Illuminated
Here's another AOL user who should definitely be manacled to a rusty pole and beaten with barb wire. Dirty thoughts! Dirty! Dirty!
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Portait of AOL Search as a Young, Strange, Man
This research paper, authored by the same people listed as authors in the AOL data's README, reveals what AOL had hoped for people to do with the data. More »
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Why Might AOL's Data Release Be A Big, Big Problem?
TechCrunch thinks there could be privacy breaches as people look up personal info which can then be correlated to their other searches. More »
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AOL User 927 Illuminated
Aroused by the thought of juicy big piles of AOL user search data? Consumerist does the wading for you and finds a delightful little item, AOL User 927. More »
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