AOL SNS Compared To Passport

stuccoguy writes "AOL has their own universal profiler and logon service called Screen Name Service. It looks an awful lot like MS Passport and raises a lot of the same privacy concerns. AOL makes the same weak assurances about not sharing profile information without permission and does not require participating sites to have any specific privacy policy. I don't know how long this service has been around, but I thought it odd that so much attention has been given to the flaws in passport and I have not heard anything about what looks like an identical service by AOL."