Judge Orders YouTube to Hand Over A List of All Users to Viacom
Judge Louis Stanton of the US District Court of New York ruled in Viacom's favor and against online privacy. Viacom will obtain the logon names and Internet addresses of every person who viewed material on YouTube. The video service is owned by Google who argued against releasing the information to Viacom. Privacy advocates have challenged Google's collection and retention of user information as anti-privacy. The number of YouTube users, who will have their logon and Internet addresses shared, is expected to be in the tens of millions.
Ruling against YouTube worries privacy advocates, Los Angeles Times, July 4, 2008
