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more on AOL Releases Search Logs from 500,000 Users
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 13:33:03 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: 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 == Please remove my name and e-mail if you forward this to IP. ==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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