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AOL Time Warner Considers Merging of Customer Info

AOL Time Warner may merge databases collected from Internet and cable subscription services. The customer information involved includes magazine subscriptions, web sites visited, channels ordered via cable, and programs watched on television.

AOL Time Warner in privacy dilemma: Mining its huge database may irk Net subscribers, Mercury Center (LA Times), February 19, 2001.