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Posted in Google, Viacom, YouTube with tags Viacom, Google, YouTube, Sumner Redstone, Eric Schmidt, MTV, VH1, CBS on 7/4/2008 6:10:45 AM by Rob Barnett

Before you start waving the flag today, eyeball some bad news in the morning paper.

Two heavyweight champions have been in a classic battle that effects our access to information and entertainment.

Our privacy just got thrown into the middle of the ring:


 

Google Told to Turn Over User Data of YouTube

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom its records of which users watched which videos on YouTube, the Web’s largest video site by far.

The order raised concerns among YouTube users and privacy advocates that the video viewing habits of tens of millions of people could be exposed. But Google and Viacom said they were hoping to come up with a way to protect the anonymity of the site’s visitors.

Full story here.


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