US Court forces Google to release your private history data

US Court forces Google to release your private history data

Please immediately tell this person _(details updated, thank you Peter)_\n\nbq.. Judge Louis L. Stanton\nDaniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse\n500 Pearl St., Room 2250\nNew York, NY10007\n\nPhones\n+1 212 805-0252\n\nFaxes\n+1 212 805-0389\n\np. that obtaining your personal history will in no way assist Viacom in identifying which of their intellectual properties has been illegally distributed. Please add that the phenomenal (how many millions of users?) negative impact on personal privacy utterly outweighs any spurious copyright swinery...\n\nRead it: Judge orders YouTube to give all user histories to Viacom (Wired) and \"eff response\":http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/07/court-ruling-will-expose-viewing-habits-youtube-us and \"Viacom CSR\":http://www.viacom.com/corpresponsibility/Pages/globalcommunity.aspx \n\nMan this is infuriating, and while I'm on the topic can I add that the \"making available\":http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/riaa-making-ava.html argument is tantamount to arresting car owners because their ownership _makes available_ the possibility of running over a pedestrian or saying that owning a gun is legally equivalent to shooting someone:-(\n\nTime to increase my donations to the EFF, and \"you should too\":http://www.eff.org/action OK?