Court Gives Viacom Window on YouTube User Activities
A new ruling in Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit against Google has privacy advocates fretting that the case may further erode privacy online, even if it’s eventually settled. Judge Louis Stanton of the U.S. District Court for Southern New York ruled that Google must provide Viacom with information from its database, including users’ YouTube login IDs, the videos they watched, and the time they watched them. Viacom wants the data in order to rebut Google’s claim that user traffic to copyrighted content on YouTube is just a small part of the site’s overall traffic.
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Court Gives Viacom Window on YouTube User Activities
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