Google Ordered To Give User Data To Viacom

In an unbelievable ruling, a judge ruled that Google must turn over all Youtube records of videos watched, including the users' names and ip addresses.

I think it's a terrible ruling that must be immediately reversed. It surely puts many people's identities and privacy at risk (just think back to the AOL Search Data Leak.

To give credit to Google, they put up a huge fight, and are undoubtedly still trying to have the ruling reversed. There's really too much info to get into, but these two articles manage it wonderfully:

Wired
Electronic Frontier Foundation


UPDATE: Here is an article from the Electronic Frontier Foundation with new statements from Viacom and Google regarding the privacy issue.