“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.”
def raises some good questions, like why does google keep personal info and why does viacom need personal info like this? personal law suits? RIAA part II?
google is very invasive, they hold a lot of personal information. They will search ALL of your shit for keywords, and then target their advertising using that information.
Besides, it is not google’s fault that stupid people post copies of copyrighted material up there. Its the people’s faults/problem that post the crap
google makes a majority of their money off of their advertising. They are VERY effective at targeting individual interests.
When I was job hunting, I started to notice that the advertisement bar at the top of the screen was telling me about c/c++ programming jobs that google had open. How the hell did they know I was looking for a software development job? Read my emails, its easy to figure out.
How do most people have no idea they scan the email??
Look at the fucking targeted advertisements you get based on content of your emails or content of your searches…its not some snky snky hidden shit…
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obviously they have a script scanning your email for key words…
I don’t really think many people pay attention to it.
Scary to think that if IT workers there really wanted to, they could easily write scripts to scan your email and look for XXX-XX-XXX, XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, etc… patterns and what not.
I don’t know any of those people at google, should I trust them with my data?
Viacom is not going to be suing you for watching a clip on youtube. They’re going add up all the times everyone watched their copyrighted shows on youtube and use that number to calculate some insane amount to sue Google for.
Back when Google bought Youtube I said it was a stupid purchase because they were opening themselves up to a huge legal mess with all the copyrighted material that ends up on Youtube. It’s only a matter of time before a judge rules that the current method of making copyright holders find their material on Youtube and then have them request it be removed isn’t good enough.
