CTO Resigns, Two Others Fired After AOL Published User Data
AOL announced the resignation of its chief technology officer yesterday, two weeks after the company came under intense criticism from privacy advocates for releasing hundreds of thousands of its customers� Web search queries. An AOL researcher who put the queries online and a manager overseeing the project were dismissed, according to an AOL employee who did not want to be identified because the company does not comment publicly on personnel matters.
AOL Moves to Increase Privacy on Search Queries, New York Times, August 22, 2006.
