[Air-l] interesting ...

[Charles Ess]

A colleague emailed me the following:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/23/technology/23search.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5
070&en=f91d8a9d76e3d7ca&ex=1157083200&adxnnl=1&emc=eta1&adxnnlx=1156803211-g
lAVovtRzZ4bnkKPsJlKqA

New York Times article from 23. August on a recent release by AOL of a very
large data set - one that set off privacy concerns among the researchers
interviewed in the article.

Thoughts and comments from sister / fellow Internet researchers - including
re. the ethical issues involved?

cheerfully,
 - cX

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