A Scandal Mine

Perhaps you know, AOL has released a database of three months worth of web searches by "anonymously identified" users. Despite AOL's equivocating apologies, the anonymity is mostly worthless. I would expect that most of the users in this database could be identified with enough work. Here's an example from the New York Times:

A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749

While AOL has taken the data down, it's conveniently available at (among other places) aolsearchdatabase.com.

There are examples of people who are apparently planning to commit murder, view highly illegal images, and so on. I wonder how long it will be until someone puts up a website which identifies users categorized by crime. I wonder how many lives will be ruined when this happens!

I can't really volunteer, since my coding skills aren't really appropriate for doing it quickly and I'm busy anyway. Anyone?