Comments on: Three workers depart AOL after privacy uproar

Net giant fires two, CTO resigns after disclosure of members' search data prompts widespread criticism.

hello, you've got bad service
by marileev August 21, 2006 4:24 PM PDT: I've been reading CNET's coverage on the AOL privacy mess and what it comes down to is bad service all around. Declining subscribers and a terrible release of AOL searches is something you'd expect say in 1997 not 2006 http://www.essentialsecurity.com/Documents/article22.htm

Better the executives fall than the average cubicle worker.; Like this Reply to this comment

Anyone still using AOL deserves their privacy to be exposed

by bobby_brady August 21, 2006 4:51 PM PDT

I'm sorry but only a real moron uses AOL.

AOL's culpability
by marileev August 22, 2006 1:05 PM PDT: I wouldn't go that far, but some people have hung around AOL far longer than they needed to for whatever reason. Maybe they got a great deal on business cards w/their AOL address they're trying to use.

In the end the company is still culpable for not looking out for people who paid their AOL subscriptions.; Like this

clue needed
by gggg sssss August 21, 2006 5:34 PM PDT: Where did AOL ever say they would keep any of this private? Sort of like posting on Cnet - even under a fake name. Of course it is visible, and of course someone might infer something by analysing all of my posts.; Like this Reply to this comment

Search proxies are now...AOL is 10 years ago
by talledega500 August 21, 2006 6:56 PM PDT: Although it took me like 5 years to get my mom off of that service!

Try a search proxy and stop skinny dipping in public. Its free.

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It's no so much the need to delete the searches...
by OneWithTech August 21, 2006 7:12 PM PDT: ...but the need to regulate the way searches are conducted and the information that is contained within the searches.

User data is the only way that people like AOL can create creative content for there target audience. There is a way to still conceive the search data without sacrificing peoples identity!

J Gund
Tech01
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Was never happy with AOL
by Seaspray0 August 22, 2006 3:39 PM PDT: You can't dial into AOL without loading the software on your computer. This is the same software that makes your computer noticably slower. What does the software entail? Who knows, but you must load it. I didn't like what it did to the browser or anything else it touched. The dial up service I chose didn't require any software loaded. Only knowing my login name, password, and a phone number, I could create a dialup connection and be on the internet with any computer. I'm glad my personal information isn't included in the leak.; Like this Reply to this comment