http://corvillus.com/2006/08/10/aol-search-id-4417749-identified/ Technology, gaming, and time wasting news Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:14:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://corvillus.com/2006/08/10/aol-search-id-4417749-identified/#comment-101 What do the major Internet properties know about you? - Corvillus Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:53:06 +0000 http://corvillus.com/2006/08/10/aol-search-id-4417749-identified/#comment-101 [...] In the wake of AOL’s recent privacy debacle, MercuryNews.com goes to ask the question, just how much do the 4 major Internet properties (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL) know about you? The article goes into detail regarding the privacy policies, data retention policies, tracking, and overall risk of these services. They also sent these companies various questions and published the answers here. The piece is an interesting read. Not that I’m going to worry about it at this point, Google already has plenty of data on me collected over the years, and I’ve been well aware of that for a while. I guess you could say I just don’t really care all that much (and won’t unless it gets released to somebody who I don’t want having it, at which point lawsuits will be flying). [...] [...] In the wake of AOL’s recent privacy debacle, MercuryNews.com goes to ask the question, just how much do the 4 major Internet properties (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL) know about you? The article goes into detail regarding the privacy policies, data retention policies, tracking, and overall risk of these services. They also sent these companies various questions and published the answers here. The piece is an interesting read. Not that I’m going to worry about it at this point, Google already has plenty of data on me collected over the years, and I’ve been well aware of that for a while. I guess you could say I just don’t really care all that much (and won’t unless it gets released to somebody who I don’t want having it, at which point lawsuits will be flying). [...]

]]> http://corvillus.com/2006/08/10/aol-search-id-4417749-identified/#comment-95 Top 10 privacy debacles - Corvillus Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:52:28 +0000 http://corvillus.com/2006/08/10/aol-search-id-4417749-identified/#comment-95 [...] We all know now about the AOL search debacle now, but there have been many more than that in the past century. Wired News has collaborated a list of them, many of which we don’t even think all that much of today. For example, the creation of the social security number is number 1 on their list. When you think about it, that really did screw Americans over on privacy. Now there’s 1 number that anyone can use to track anything you do, and if it happens to fall in the wrong hands, it even allows for identity theft. Yikes! The others listed are on the same order of privacy wrecking though and the article is a very good read. [...] [...] We all know now about the AOL search debacle now, but there have been many more than that in the past century. Wired News has collaborated a list of them, many of which we don’t even think all that much of today. For example, the creation of the social security number is number 1 on their list. When you think about it, that really did screw Americans over on privacy. Now there’s 1 number that anyone can use to track anything you do, and if it happens to fall in the wrong hands, it even allows for identity theft. Yikes! The others listed are on the same order of privacy wrecking though and the article is a very good read. [...]

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