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Court Orders Google to Hand Over Your YouTube Personal Data

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Just yesterday, I had a conversation, agreeing that the only thing that could topple Google, would be privacy. The same day, a judge presiding over the Google/Viacom case issued a court order requiring Google to turn over your personal data. The EFF reports the order requires Google to hand over YouTube's Logging database. What's in YouTube's logging database? â¦for each instance a video is watched, the unique "login ID" of the user who watched it, the time when the user started to watch the video, the internet protocol address other devices connected to the internet use to identify the user's computer ("IP address"), and the identifier for the video.

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Viacom Changes Mind On Demand For YouTube Data
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Viacom Changes Mind On Demand For YouTube Data By Andy Beal - Tue, 07/15/2008 - 4:23pm. It is now safe to return to your normal YouTube viewing habits. Viacom will not be getting its hands on your personal data. According to the YouTube blog… News Tags: Google, personal data, MTV, YouTube, Viacom
Viacom Changes Mind On Demand For YouTube Data
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It is now safe to return to your normal YouTube viewing habits. Viacom will not be getting its hands on your personal data. According to the YouTube blog… read more
Viacom Withdraws Original Demand for YouTube Data
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It is now safe to return to your normal YouTube viewing habits. Viacom will not be getting its hands on your personal data. According to the YouTube blog… We are pleased to report that Viacom, MTV and other litigants have backed off their original demand for all users’ viewing histories and we will not be providing that information. In addition, Viacom and the plaintiffs had originally demanded access to users’ private videos, our search technology, and our video identification technology. Our lawyers strongly opposed each of those demands and the court sided with us. So, should we celebrate the protection of our private data? Not so fast! Viacom’s not getting your data because it realized the swarm of negative publicity that would follow, not because a judge ruled it couldn’t have it. The precedent has been set and, until challenged, will give grounds for others to request all kinds of personal data from the Google et al.
New Media News: Court Orders Google To Give Viacom Your Private Data
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Permalink New Media News: Court Orders Google To Give Viacom Your Private Data Viacom is at it again. And this time they have the court’s backing. Google has been ordered to hand over YouTube users’ private data. TechCrunch says Viacom wants to use the information to find ordinary Joe’s to sue. I don’t think so. I think Viacom will see it more as a marketing opportunity. Once the cold blows off and dissipates from the sinister news they will likely want to use the information for marketing purposes, which would be far worse than trying to sue YouTube users. If the court does get away with forcing Google to sell out its users to Viacom there should be a stipulation that Viacom cannot use the information for anything other than determining that there were in fact users who watched their copyrighted videos. But the more pressing issue is the privacy of users altogether. There is no reason to make YouTube user privacy information available to Viacom or the public. The court should instead allow the information to be used in discovery and with the stipulation that none of the information can be used beyond the purview of use within this lawsuit and that none of it will be made public. But to be totally honest, I hope Viacom loses its pants off.