July 3, 2008

Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom

According to The Inquistr, Google has been ordered to hand over details of every video ever watched on YouTube to Viacom, along with user names and IP addresses.

The decision was handed down by the United States District Court (Southern District of New York) in the ongoing Viacom action against YouTube, according to a report at Wired, adding: "The Electronic Frontier Foundation has already reacted, calling the order a violation of the Video Privacy Protection act that "threatens to expose deeply private information.""

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