Google Ordered to Hand Over All YouTube User Data Posted: 3 months ago by bingo
Ever check out YouTube? Have a user name and password for it? Then Viacom's going to find out all about what you like to watch.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the online video-sharing Web site, owned by Google, has to turn over all its user logs to Viacom, the mega-corporation that owns MTV, Paramount Pictures, Comedy Central and VH1, among others.
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Posted: 3 months ago by suckersklub:
Youtube was recently asking me to connect my account there with my Google account ("O hai, it lux laik u haz 1 - want konnek?"). I didn't do it, but from the fact that they knew it I concluded they had already done it behind the scenes, and that it's just a matter of time until they change their TOS to make it official. Facebook is next, i bet.

One day we'll remember the "old" internet, and it'll appear like the 60s to us - something we'll never be able to explain to our kids.

I guess that day will be some time around next december.
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