EFF Files Complaint with FTC Over AOL Data Leak

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday August 15, 2006 @08:20AM from the little-tighter-with-those-pipes-please dept.

Quincy A. writes "Last week's exposure of search data on over 500,000 AOL users was a gigantic embarrassment for the company. It may be about to get worse, as the EFF has filed a complaint with the FTC over the incident. 'Citing AOL's own Network Privacy Policy, the EFF says that the company failed to "implement reasonable and appropriate measures to protect personal consumer information from public disclosure."' Among other things, the complaint asks AOL to notify all users affected by the data disclosure via certified mail and provide free credit monitoring for a year."

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AOL issues a press release: by Anonymous Coward · 2006-08-15 08:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

OMGWTFBBQ!
Looks great but by BeoCluster · 2006-08-15 08:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Can I make a Beowulf Cluster of these search queries ?
Re:While I am surprised the EFF took the case by umm+qasr · 2006-08-15 08:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Yeah. Typo corrections are funny.