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Court Ruling Will Expose Viewing Habits of YouTube Users

(Posted on  EFF.org Updates  about 1 month ago)

Yesterday, in the Viacom v. Google litigation, the federal court for the Southern District of New York ordered Google to produce to Viacom (over Google's objections): all data from the Logging database concerning each time a YouTube video ha… (visit source article)
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