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Viacom to Get You Tube Viewer Details and Habits

By Jeralyn, Section Civil Liberties
Posted on Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 01:06:36 PM EST
Tags: You Tube (all tags)
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As a result of a copyright infringement lawsuit between Google and Viacom,

Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled.

The viewing log, which will be handed to Viacom, contains the log-in ID of users, the computer IP address (online identifier) and video clip details.

This decision appears to affect You Tube watchers world-wide. Google raised privacy issues with the court, to no avail:

[I]t said privacy concerns expressed by Google about handing over the log were "speculative".

Google isn't blameless in this latest threat to our privacy. [More...]

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