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Google ordered to hand over millions of YouTube user details to Viacom

Google must hand over the personal details of anyone who has ever watched a video on YouTube, a US judge has ruled.

Google Wins Agreement To Anonymize YouTube Logs

Barence, following up on yesterday's news that Viacom is looking for videos uploaded by Google staff, links to an article at PC Pro, excerpting: "Google and Viacom have reached a deal to protect the privacy of millions of YouTube watchers. Earlier this month, a New York federal judge ordered Google to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom and other plaintiffs to help them prepare a confidential study of what they argue are vast piracy violations on the video-sharing site. Google claims it had now agreed to provide plaintiffs' attorneys with a version of a massive viewership database that blanks out YouTube usernames and IP addresses that could be used to identify individual video watchers."

Google ordered to hand over personal details of millions of YouTube users to Viacom

The US court ruling comes as part of a legal battle over copyright infringement between internet search engine Google, which owns video-hosting website YouTube, and content provider Viacom.

Viacom to Get YouTube User Histories

As litigation continues in Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement suit against Google, a judge has ordered (PDF) Google most turn over the usage histories of every YouTube user to Viacom. The usage logs contain each YouTube user's login ID, the IP address used to connect to YouTube, as well as a video identifier and a start time.

YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom

psyopper writes "Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday. Although Google argued that turning over the data would invade its users' privacy, the judge's ruling (.pdf) described that argument as "speculative" and ordered Google to turn over the logs on a set of four tera-byte hard drives."

Google Forced To Give Viacom Video Logs, But Can Keep Search Source Code

Mountain View (CA) - Viacom won a significant victory in their $1 billion copyright infringement case against Google/YouTube. Google has been ordered to hand over terabytes of video search information that shows the details of every video ever played on YouTube. However Google did dodge a huge bullet as Judge Louis Stanton denied Viacom’s request for source code to Google’s search engine.

Viacom lawsuit: Google told to hand over all YouTube user details

The internet giant Google is being forced to hand over the personal information of every person who has ever watched a video on the YouTube website as part of a billion-dollar court case in the US.

Google ordered to give YouTube user data to Viacom

A woman walks past the logo of Internet search engine giant Google at a trade fair. Google expressed disappointment and privacy groups voiced outrage Thursday after a judge ordered Google to give entertainment giant Viacom details of video-watching habits of visitors to its popular video-sharing website YouTube.

Viacom-YouTube Reach Deal to Anonymize User Data

Earlier we reported a court decision that handed over all YouTube user data to Viacom. As we know Viacom and YouTube are enmeshed in a lawsuit over copyrighted material uploaded to YouTube. The information was to assist Viacom in its case, but it was unclear why they needed user data to prove the amount of copyrighted material uploaded or viewed.

YouTube users' privacy prevails in Viacom case

Google Inc. has reached a deal with Viacom Inc. to protect the privacy of tens of millions of YouTube viewers. A judge had ordered Google, YouTube's corporate parent, to hand over user data as part of the $1-billion copyright infringement case brought by Viacom.

Viacom, Google agree to mask 12TB of YouTube user data

According to our Google/Viacom scoreboard, the Big G beat the Big V 3-2 in court earlier this month, but that still meant Google had to turn over a 12TB database of every YouTube video ever watched—complete with user IDs and IP addresses. The decision immediately raised privacy concerns, but Google and Viacom have now signed an agreement to anonymize the logging database before the handover.

Google Chrome, the Google Browser

Philipp Lenssen writes "Google announced their very own browser project called Google Chrome — an announcement in the form of a comic book drawn by Scott McCloud, no less. Google says Google Chrome will be open source, include a new JavaScript virtual machine, include the Google Gears add-on by default, and put the tabs above the address bar (not below), among other things. I've also uploaded Google's comic book with all the details (details given from Google's perspective, anyway... let's see how this holds up). While Google provided the URL www.google.com/chrome there's nothing up there yet."

Google's Data Collection Gives Viacom Privacy Details

Google has been ordered to give Viacom details on YouTube video watchers that include user details and IP addresses. Google claimed a privacy interest in revealing IP addresses, a view it had previously rejected on its blog. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton cited that blog in releasing data that could identify YouTube users.

Finding Fault With Google's Privacy Policy

orenh writes "Viacom has recently obtained a court order that requires Google to hand over a complete list of every video watched by YouTube users. These logs will include the login names and IP addresses of the users. Google are now asking Viacom if they can anonymize the logs before turning them over; Viacom hasn't responded yet. But this privacy nightmare could have been greatly reduced if Google had anonymized the data in advance. Google's privacy policy states that they keep personally identifiable information for 18 months. There is no real reason to do so; Google can achieve everything they need even if they anonymize their search logs after just one month, and it's time users told them to do so."

Judge Orders Google to Provide YouTube User Data to Viacom

New York - The federal judge presiding over Viacom's (NYSE: VIA) $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube on Thursday ruled that Google (NASD: GOOG) will not have to turn over source code for its search technology for the proceedings, but will have to provide user data on who viewed which videos on YouTube, as well as copies of every video ever removed from the site for copyright violations, or any other reason.

Veoh Court Victory May Be Bad Sign for Viacom - YouTube infringement case may have gotten weaker

Google is in the midst of a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Viacom for YouTube violations of copyright infringement. Google hopes that a recent ruling in the favor of video site Veoh will mean good things for the YouTube case. In both the Veoh case (filed by porn company Io after the company’s adult films were found on the Veoh site) and the YouTube case, the defendants’ believe that they are not responsible for hosting liabilities because of a “safe harbor” clause in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. These sites are simply service providers that have to do minimal things to make sure that copyright isn’t violated. The court has ruled that this is true in the case of Veoh. Google believes this helps its case against Viacom but Viacom says that there are enough differences between YouTube and Veoh that it will contin

The End of Internet Privacy? A Look at the Viacom-Google Order

Last week, in the context of Viacom’s $1 billion copyright suit against Google’s YouTube, U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton ordered Google to turn over to Viacom its records of which users watched which videos on YouTube. To give you an idea of how many users might be affected by the order, the WSJ reports that, according to comScore, Google sites, which include YouTube, were the top U.S. video property in April, with more than 4.1 billion videos viewed, or 38% of all online videos. (Here’s more on the order from the NYT.)

Google ordered: hand over user data

A New York judge has told Google which owns YouTube to open up its logs of viewers including user names, IP addresses and what they watched, to Viacom in a one billion dollar lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement.

Google ordered to give YouTube user data to Viacom

A woman walks past the logo of Internet search engine giant Google at a trade fair. Google expressed disappointment Thursday at a judge's order to give entertainment giant Viacom details of video-watching habits of visitors to its popular video-sharing website YouTube.

YouTube, Viacom Both Want To Uphold User Privacy. As For IPs...

Chances are you’ve heard recently about an order made by a judge for the Southern District of New York for Google to turn over user data to Viacom for videos uploaded to and played back on the megasite YouTube. The extent of the demand is quite extraordinary. The data Viacom has asked for stretches back a few years’ time, and seeing that the video host now serves user requests for billions of clips every month, Google’s compliance on the matter would no doubt toss this case firmly into the realm of very high-profile ligitation. Privacy advocates are atwitter.

Google told to hand over YouTube viewers

Google was yesterday ordered to hand over the personal details of anyone who has ever watched a YouTube video.

Viacom Gets Google's Privacy Data

Google has been ordered to give Viacom details on YouTube video watchers that include user details and IP addresses. Google claimed a privacy interest in revealing IP addresses, a view it had previously rejected on its blog. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton cited that blog in releasing data that could identify YouTube users.

Indian Court Demands Google Hand Over Anonymous Blogger's Identity

It would appear that Google is discovering some of the differences in the legal system in India as compared to the US. Just after we wrote about how Google (along with Microsoft and Yahoo) were sued over ads, there are some stories coming out about how an Indian court has ordered Google to hand over the identity of an anonymous blogger who was criticizing an Indian company, Gremach Infrastructure Equipments & Projects Ltd. While anonymous speech is somewhat protected (within certain limits) in the US, that's not the case in many other countries. As the link above notes, this may force Google to change the way it does business in India.

Viacom, Google Agree on Privacy

An agreement between Viacom and Google will protect user identities as Google complies with a court order to give Viacom data on YouTube viewing. Google will withhold user names and other information that could identify individual users. Viacom is seeking $1 billion for copyright infringement.

Viacom, Google Agree on Privacy

An agreement between Viacom and Google will protect user identities as Google complies with a court order to give Viacom data on YouTube viewing. Google will withhold user names and other information that could identify individual users. Viacom is seeking $1 billion for copyright infringement.

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