The World Privacy Forum has filed a U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint against AOL. The group says AOL violated its own privacy policy by releasing the search records from hundreds of thousands of its members. AOL didn’t disclose the members names, but it categorized each persons records with a unique number, making it possible to see what each individual searched for. AOL acknowledged the release was a lapse in judgement and removed the data file from its website, but many websites published the records.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2120196/aol-receives-another-privacy-complaint.html