AOL, by EFF

San Francisco's Electronic Frontier Foundation files complaint against AOL -- The complaint accuses AOL of breaking a promise to protect its subscribers' privacy when it posted about 19 million search requests made by 660,000 subscribers during a three-month period ending in May. They were publicly accessible for ten days.

Even though AOL said it was "anonymized" data, people often search on their names and other aspects of their lives, and they can sometimes be easily pinpointed, as mentioned. Moreover, you combine that with their searches of pornographic or other embarrassing material (we are now seeing some disgusting revelations, and have chosen for now not to point to them), it becomes explosive and can wreck peoples' lives. It is probably already doing so.

Wiki.com sold for $3 million -- This might be evidence of a bubble, if not for the fact that the buyer is domain name speculator John Gotts.

Segway releases new edition -- This high-tech scooter company is remarkable for its marketing. It manages to swing a full story in the New York Times for what appears to be a relatively minor upgrade. Though some would argue with us. Basically, you can now lean forward to move it, and not use your arms.

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