Group files FTC complaint against AOL

SAN FRANCISCO - The backlash against AOL's recent release of its subscribers' search requests continued Wednesday as a privacy rights group filed a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging the breach was intentional.

AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein denied the allegation made by the World Privacy Forum, reiterating earlier descriptions of the breakdown as a "mistaken release" by a bumbling researcher.

The San Diego-based World Privacy Forum's filing follows a similar complaint by the Electronic Frontier Foundation,a civil liberties group in San Francisco.