Electronic Frontier Foundation files a complaint against AOL with FTC

Electronic Frontier Foundation files a complaint against AOL with FTC

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has finally filed a complaint against the internet company AOL and they are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate AOL and require strengthening of its privacy protections.

This is happening after AOL accidentally released 20 million search records of their 658,000 subscribers.

The EFF is claiming that this breach violated AOL’s privacy policy and the Federal Trade Commission Act’s bar on deceptive or unfair trade practices.

AOL has said that the breach was a violation of internal policy forbidding disclosure of sensitive information but not of the company’s privacy policy. A company spokesperson responded in a statement: “AOL did not provide any personally identifiable information to a third party.”