Da-Chief
07-16-2008, 08:15
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Recently the judge in Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit ordered YouTube to turn over all data on videos watched by users (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/95786) -- including log ins and user's IP addresses. Seemingly violating the Video Privacy Protection Act (http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/07/court-ruling-will-expose-viewing-habits-youtube-us) (VPPA), privacy advocates were concerned the ruling could allow Viacom to use the data for copyright lawsuits or marketing. uid://129458 writes in: "Good news: The lawyers in the case representing both sides have come to a compromise agreement (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080715/ts_nm/google_viacom_dc_6) in which data will still be turned over to Viacom, but it will be anonymized; the user log ins and internet IP addresses will be blanked and removed." Of course, very often "anonymized data" isn't so anonymous (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071130/114005.shtml).
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Recently the judge in Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit ordered YouTube to turn over all data on videos watched by users (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/95786) -- including log ins and user's IP addresses. Seemingly violating the Video Privacy Protection Act (http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/07/court-ruling-will-expose-viewing-habits-youtube-us) (VPPA), privacy advocates were concerned the ruling could allow Viacom to use the data for copyright lawsuits or marketing. uid://129458 writes in: "Good news: The lawyers in the case representing both sides have come to a compromise agreement (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080715/ts_nm/google_viacom_dc_6) in which data will still be turned over to Viacom, but it will be anonymized; the user log ins and internet IP addresses will be blanked and removed." Of course, very often "anonymized data" isn't so anonymous (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071130/114005.shtml).
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