A judge’s order that Google turn over YouTube user data to Viacom is raising privacy concerns. But some privacy advocates question why Google is collecting the data in the first place.Viacom had asked the court for access to the information stored in the logging database as part of a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit filed last year against Google and its YouTube LLC video-sharing unit. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton last week agreed with Viacom’s claim that the video-viewing data could help the media and entertainment company “compare the attractiveness” of videos that allegedly infringe on its content copyrights against the appeal of those that don’t do so.
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Users of YouTube will have their access details handed over to entertainment giant Viacom and the English football Premier League after a US judge ordered the disclosure of a 12 terabyte database.
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