Google Told to Turn Over User Data of YouTube

July 4th, 2008 Uncategorized

Here’s another cog in the “Big Brother” is watching you and what you are watching.  Google was ordered, by a federal judge, to turn over its records of which users watched which videos on YouTube, the Web’s largest video site by far, to Viacom.

“The order raised concerns among YouTube users and privacy advocates that the video viewing habits of tens of millions of people could be exposed. But Google and Viacom said they were hoping to come up with a way to protect the anonymity of the site’s visitors.”
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