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I just found out through Techmeme that YouTube is being forced to give all their user profiles and history to Viacom by a judge.
This is a massive breach of privacy that Google is being forced into and seems crazy to me. Certainly Viacom could get an understanding of what users were watching without the things like user names being divulged.
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