Well, it's not supermarkets and airports: It's YouTube. A Federal judge ordered yesterday that YouTube turn over to Viacom its records of every single video watched on the service. The action is part of Viacom's ongoing copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube.
Chris Albrecht at NewTeeVee has the details. Obviously, individual privacy concerns are a major issue here. On the other hand, don't we all realize that, while we're watching YouTube, YouTube is watching us?
My friends the Electronic Frontier Foundation are up in arms over the ruling. It remains to be seen whether Google/YouTube will have to comply. In the meantime, I'd suggest you keep any viewing of Viacom-owned content -- as well as all those sexy girlie videos -- to a minimum.
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