more on AOL Releases Search Logs from 500,000 Users

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: August 7, 2006 1:12:38 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] AOL Releases Search Logs from 500,000 Users


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A search for an SSN shaped regex on the full AOL search data returns  
a 191 results including repeat searches.  Many of these have full  
names, and at least a dozen include either an addresses, drivers  
license number, date of birth or some combination of the three in the  
same query.  There's no telling how much more information an  
aggregation of other queries by those same user ID would yield.


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