AOL’s chief technology officer, Maureen Govern, is reported to have resigned in the wake of privacy concerns stemming from the release of Web search data. It is also being reported that the researcher who released the data and that employee’s direct supervisor were also forced out.

The AOL research Web site is currently offline (here’s is the Google cache version).

It’s a sad and unfortunate outcome of AOL’s release of Web search data that was intended to help the research community build better software systems.

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