Another power-crazed Federal Judge has issued a ruling giving media giant Viacom all your personal viewing records from the video service YouTube. In a direct violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act, the judge ordered YouTube owner, Google, to produce all records of who viewed what, and when.
Presiding Judge, Louis L. Stanton, apparently has decided that the rights of Viacom to know who watched some short out-takes from Comedy Central is infinitely more important than the privacy rights of some 180 million YouTube users.
Here’s the jump to the story over at Electronic Frontier Foundation
