I think because of the data contained in these search results the government is going to be taking a lot closer look at the search industry and things will definitely change. What is going to happen to the search industry now? What are peoples privacy rights? If people are using AOL to search for ways of killing their spouse what should be done about it? This is the very data that google won a legal battle to keep from the government.
Does this look like the search history of a user wanting to do something bad? There are hundreds of searches from people looking to kill themselves and even more scary are searches from users that seem to be looking to commit murder.Ĭheck out the search history for user 17556639, most recent search is at the bottom of the list. There are some truly scary things in this database. Contained in this list are social security numbers, credit cards and other personal information.
released a list of 20 million + searches by 500,000 AOL users. This story will open a can of worms, and will decide just how private your data online really is.
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I ask you why is it that americans have no problems arresting people that are planning or researching how to conduct terrorist attacks? Yet if a person plans on killing his wife that is ok, until he actually does it? How many people do you have to plan on killing before its ok for a company like AOL to hand your records over to the government? I am not taking sides, I’m just pointing out the obvious double standard. Users in the comments are pissed off at the idea that people can be arrested for planning a crime like murder, calling it minority report like.