3 AOL Heads Roll After Users Search Records Released

Two weeks after AOL released the search records for 500,000 plus users and endured a public outcry, three AOL workers have left. The researcher responsible for posting the data, along with his supervisor, were fired. Chief Technology Officer Maureen Govern resigned.

A cursory search revealed why Maureen didn’t give a diddlydarn about AOL users: she used to work for Convergys.

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