US court orders Viacom to be given all YouTube usernames, IP addresses and viewing histories
It’s been a week in which big business concerns have really shown their claws, what with Virgin Media colluding with the BPI in sending out letters to customers threatening them with disconnection (something Virgin now says was a “mistake”) and now Viacom getting some stupid judge in the US to order Google to disclose the viewing habits of everybody in the entire world who has ever watched a video on YouTube.
tags: Google, privacy, rights, Viacom, YouTube
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