A decision by a judge in a case of Vicom vs. Google reported in a Wired blog post is lighting up the internet. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Tech Crunch, CNet, Techmeme, Search Engine Land and Wired are all reporting that Google is being forced to turn over every record of every single video watched by You Tube users!
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Wired reports:
Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Yeah! WTF, indeed!
Click on the links above to read the respective posts and article.
Then write anyone and everyone to express your absolute horror that big corporations can get important data about your online viewing habits this easily.
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