WSJ By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO July 15, 2008 6:22 a.m.
"Google Inc. and Viacom Inc. have agreed to allow Google to anonymize YouTube visitor data before complying with a judge's order to deliver the data to Viacom as part of a broader copyright lawsuit.
Google-owned YouTube announced late Monday night that the parties had agreed to allow it to substitute actual user and visitor IDs and internet protocol addresses with other unique values to help protect user privacy. ....."
Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121610186928353941.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
YouTube Blog coverage posted yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=AnA3ulGpWsE |
Google agreed to provide evident to prove its innocent. |
Here's the entire article for non-WSJ subscribers:
Google Inc. and Viacom Inc. have agreed to allow Google to anonymize YouTube visitor data before complying with a judge's order to deliver the data to Viacom as part of a broader copyright lawsuit.
Google-owned YouTube announced late Monday night that the parties had agreed to allow it to substitute actual user and visitor IDs and internet protocol addresses with other unique values to help protect user privacy. Lawyers for both companies agreed to a court stipulation which stated that "parties shall agree as promptly as feasible on a specific protocol to govern this substitution."
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Scjm, I snipped to more fair use ... but note you should be able to follow the link I've used in the post on this, which jumps to Google News. Clicking through to WSJ from Google News should show the full article, a bit of an odd behavior but Google apparently is OK with this. |
And EFF's coverage is here:
"Viacom Letter to EFF re Google/YouTube Data Privacy" http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/07/viacom-letter-eff-re-google-youtube-data-privacy
including link to the Viacom's letter to Electronic Frontier Foundation (pdf document) |
[merged from "Why EFF's privacy protection act protects YouTube/Viacom employees"]
There is a partial agreement with YouTube and Viacom now http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-07-15-n22.html
but EFF has new information related to their Video Privacy Protection Act [aka VPPA] "...protects the records showing the video viewing habits of Google/Youtube and Viacom employees."
Link: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/07/why-vppa-protects-youtube-and-viacom-employees |