AOL Hiring Its First Chief Privacy Officer

Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:53PM EDT

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Color me surprised: I was shocked to hear that one of the world's largest ISPs has never had a chief privacy officer, a staple at many high-tech companies and something that AOL needs, considering its long history of privacy gaffes. Heck, even Microsoft has a privacy officer.

Well at least it's doing something about it: In response to the release of 650,000 user records recently, the company is undergoing a massive reorganization (and disbanding the unit responsible for releasing the user information) and naming a privacy officer. No date has been set aside from "soon."

This is good news for AOL users but probably a bit too late to stem the flood of users abandoning the once-pioneering ISP, despite its recent plan to become free for broadband users. (Though in all fairness, AOL has seen a slight jump in subscribers after it launched the free service.)

But maybe I'm wrong. Is AOL on an upswing? Anyone's opinion of the company turning up?

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  • 1 Posted by shutrbug@sbcglobal.net on Thu Sep 3, 2009 9:21PM EDT Report Abuse

    AOL needs a Chief Privacy Officer badly. I signed up for an Xdrive account (owned by AOL) and shared some photos that I uploaded to my Xdrive with some friends. The email that was sent had my password appended to my AOL screen name! I can't believe that they're so lax with security. Actually, I guess I can... they're AOL.

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