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...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...
Just a week after announcing it will give away free e-mail addresses and online storage space, AOL admitted yesterday it had mistakenly given away something far more valuable. In a move originally intended to help academics using its research site, the company (which, like Time.com, is owned by Time Warner) released information about Web searches conducted by 658,000 of its members between March and May. The data linked together millions of searches done by unnamed individuals over that three-month period, for example linking a Kentucky-based poker aficionado's searches for poker lessons with...
...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...
...sorry I did it." STEVE CASE, co-founder of AOL, apologizing for his company's 2001 merger with media giant Time Warner (owner of TIME). The deal wiped some $200 billion from the corporations' market value