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| YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom                     |
|   from the stay-classy-viacom dept.                                |
|   posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 03, @08:39 (The Internet)    |
|   http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/03/121221 |
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[0]psyopper writes “Google will have to [1]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. Although
Google argued that turning over the data would invade its users’ privacy,
the [2]judge’s ruling (.pdf) described that argument as ’speculative’ and
ordered Google to turn over the logs on a set of four terabyte hard
drives.” Update: 07/03 18:05 GMT by [3]T : Brian Aker, now of MySQL but
long ago Slashdot’s “database thug,” writes a journal entry on how
companies [4]could intelligently treat such potentially sensitive user
data.

Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/07/03/121221

Links:
0. mailto:psyopper [Email address: psyopper #AT# gmail.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/judge-orders-yo.html
2. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/viacom_youtube.PDF
3. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
4. http://krow.livejournal.com/601930.html