Google to Hand YouTube Userinfo to Viacom (updated)
Federal court for the Southern District of New York ordered Google to produce, to Viacom, “all data from the logging database concerning each time a YouTube video has been viewed on the YouTube website or through embedding on a third-party website.” Read more about the ruling here.
In the face of YouTube users’ protests, Viacom has stated, that it needs the data to demonstrate video piracy patterns that are the heart of its case against YouTube. Viacom claims it has “no interest in identifying individual users.” (Reuters Article here)
More information at these links:
= YouTube order: Does it threaten your privacy?
= No appeal from Google on YouTube data ruling
= Viacom restrained from accessing user data [July 4, 2008]
= YouTube Responds to Court Order News
= Big Brother (Viacom) Wants To Know What You’re Watching On YouTube
= Google Ordered to Reveal Viewing Habits of Every YouTube User
= The price of privacy: Google, Viacom, and the one-billion-dollar assault on freedom
= No Google source code for Viacom, just 12TB of YouTube data
= Google, Viacom, Privacy and Copyright meet the social web
= History repeating itself
= Department of Civil Disobedience: Google Should Deliver Its YouTube Data to Viacom in Paper Form
= Viacom Gets YouTube User Data
= Judge Protects YouTube’s Source Code, Throws Users To The Wolves
= Viacom boycott, anyone?
