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Posted by danny burstein on July 3, 2008, 6:14 pm
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Court Ruling Will Expose Viewing Habits of YouTube Users
Yesterday, in the Viacom v. Google litigation, the federal
court for the Southern District of New York ordered Google to
produce to Viacom (over Google's objections):
all data from the Logging database concerning each time
a YouTube video has been viewed on the YouTube website
or through embedding on a third-party website.
The court's order grants Viacom's request and erroneously
ignores the protections of the federal Video Privacy
Protection Act (VPPA), and threatens to expose deeply
private information about what videos are watched by
YouTube users. The VPPA passed after a newspaper disclosed
Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's video rental records.
As Congress recognized, your selection of videos to watch
is deeply personal and deserves the strongest protection...
rest:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/07/court-ruling-will-expose-viewing-habits-youtube-us
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