» Google To Turn Over YouTube User Data to Viacom
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Judge Louis L. Stanton ordered Google to fork over ~12TB of data: videos, user IDs, listings of what videos each user viewed when, along with their IP addresses. Staton dismissed privacy concerns as “speculative.” So if you used a login like firstname_lastname - all your freaky viewing habits will soon be out there for an army of summer associates to pour over.
The one, narrow bright spot in this ruling? Staton “declared that private videos uploaded by a user sharing with one other user are protected under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.”