A short article about Viacom's intrusion into You Tube user accounts. Viacom's big brother court techniques of obtaining You Tube user information is a violation of user privacy rights. It was bad enough when the NSA spying became obtrusive after the Patriot Act was passed, but it is unacceptable to have a multinational corporation raping user privacy rights. Google Attorney Catherine Lacavera said that: “We are disappointed the court granted Viacom’s overreaching demand for viewing history.... We are asking Viacom to respect users’ privacy and allow us to anonymize the logs before producing them under the court’s order.” Kurt Opshal at the Electronic Frontier Foundation noted that: "The court’s order grants Viacom's request and erroneously ignores the protections of the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), and...
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