Word: aol
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...that story to the girls, they understood the risks they would be facing.” Team members said they were adjusting to the change by finding other ways to share information. “We’re finding other ways to communicate, like getting back to AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) more,” freshman Christina L. L. Hagner ’10 said. Erin M. Wylie ’09, a sophomore, said the sacrifice was worth it. “We don’t want to put our team at risk or have...
...really blame companies for watching our Web habits, since 45% of us admit that surfing is our favorite time waster, according to a joint survey by Salary.com and AOL. A Northeast technology company found that several employees who frequently complained of overwork spent all day on MySpace.com Information-technology departments routinely receive automatic Web reports on what sites employees visit; they tend to review them only if there's a red flag...
...found that whereas students ages 6 to 8 did an average of 52 min. of homework a week in 1981, they were toiling 128 min. weekly by 1997. And that's before No Child Left Behind kicked in. An admittedly less scientific poll of parents conducted this year for AOL and the Associated Press found that elementary school students were averaging 78 min. a night...
...Searchers who typed in their names in one search, and then later searched the Web using private financial numbers or sensitive search terms - think medical conditions or bizarre fantasies - could find that searches they thought would go no further than their browser are now available to curious onlookers. Although AOL removed the database from its research site when bloggers drew attention to the privacy breach, the data had already been copied and posted elsewhere. Several sites have been set up to allow general access to the search records...
...incident. "Data security is in shambles," says Beth Givens, director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC), which has posted a list of more than 150 serious data compromises so far in 2006. The breaches include lost bank backup tapes, hacking losses, stolen laptops, and releases of private information like AOL's. "This latest leak gives us a window into the sensitivity of search strings," Givens says. "We all use search engines and don't think about what someone could learn about the most sensitive aspects of our lives by studying what we search for over time...