AOL has been in the news for laying off employees and moving their headquarters to Manhattan, New York City.
Bill Pytlovany blogged this with a new twist:
I never signed up or requested Emails from Side Step. The Email was very careful to follow the minimum requirements of the Can-Spam Act of 2003. Having this Email “Certified†by AOL means nothing to me other than “Advertising OnLine†was paid by this company to spam my Email account.
Silicon Alley Insider: Randy Falco Email to employees.
Time Warner: Randy Falco Bio.
After the discovery of AOL’s data release on 20 million searches performed by its customers, consumer complaints are mounting.
consumeraffairs.com
AOL Takes More Hits In Press, On Internet
August 7, 2006
AOL’s PR staff was working overtime this weekend, as the Internet Service Provider got some bad press in both old and new media for practices that are hardly news to those who’ve followed the company for years.
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Even dead people can’t escape AOL
By David Sheets
08/04/2006
Gauthier even offered to send a copy of her father’s obituary as proof he truly was dead. AOL was unmoved.
“An AOL service guy told me to stop complaining and learn to use a computer,” she said. “Then he hung up.”
AOL bills the deceased, what’s up with that?
Article and Links
Google to continue storing search requests despite AOL gaffe
MICHAEL LIEDTKE
Associated Press
Posted on Wed, Aug. 09, 2006
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Although he was alarmed by AOL’s haphazard release of its subscribers’ online search requests, Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt said Wednesday the privacy concerns raised by that breach won’t change his company’s practice of storing the inquiries made by its users.
“We are reasonably satisfied … that this sort of thing would not happen at Google, although you can never say never,” Schmidt said during an appearance at a major search engine conference in San Jose.
Hardly a reassuring statement.
