In yet another case of unauthorized data leaks, search queries from more than 600,000 AOL users made over three months this year became easily available over the Internet, raising an outcry from bloggers who criticized the company for not protecting the privacy of its search engine users.
AOL had planned to make the data available only to researchers as part of an effort to help the academic community develop new search-related tools but ended up posting it on a wiki page that could be accessed by all.
Search data for roughly 658,000 anonymous users were released. AOL said there were about 20 million search records over that period, so the data included roughly a third of 1 percent of the total searches conducted through the AOL network during that period.
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