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The ridiculous ruling by a US federal judge that orders that Google must hand over the details of every single viewer of a youtube video is going to result in one of the biggest breaches of privacy in internet history if it’s upheld by higher courts. I don’t imagine it will be upheld on appeal, the Judge appears to be a moron who is unwilling to consider the right to privacy and the laws maintaining privacy of video rental which could at the very least inform the debate. Well that’s my contention. All the same TechCrunch suggests delivering the information in paper form… That would be the equivalent of the entirety of the Library of Congress being printed and delivered. Within the letter but not the spirit.
Google Should Deliver Its YouTube Data to Viacom in Paper Form
Jeff Jarvis has thought on the issue and wonders if maybe Youtube could be considered like a video library, and Google like a library or bookstore, as keepers and providers data, and in consequence, bound to uphold the privacy of their transactions with users in a similar manner.
Interesting times.
