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Finding Fault With Google's Privacy Policy
orenh writes "Viacom has recently obtained a court order that requires Google to hand over a complete list of every video watched by YouTube users. These logs will include the login names and IP addresses of the users. Google are now asking Viacom if they can anonymize the logs before turning them over; Viacom hasn't responded yet. But this privacy nightmare could have been greatly reduced if Google had anonymized the data in advance. Google's privacy policy states that they keep personally identifiable information for 18 months. There is no real reason to do so; Google can achieve everything they need even if they anonymize their search logs after just one month, and it's time users told them to do so."
In soviet America, corporations tube you!
just say they were 'lost' and that the backups were destroyed or lost due to shady backup practices. works for the White House.
Aw damn. Now Viacom knows every bit of strange porn I've watched.
Uhh you've anonymized this, right Slashdot?
The world will find out about my Thomas the Tank engine fetish....
Fuck you assholes.
Yeah, my karma sucks....but so do the mods.
Noooo, don't you understand?! Big corporations aren't just out there to offer products and services for the sake of profit and growth! Of course you think Google's services are great, that's what they *want* you to think! In fact all these nifty services are a honey pot so that you go there and give them your IP address and let them store which video you've watched to hand it all over to the evil government! Capitalism is evil, and corporations and this government are capitalistic!! OMG Karl Marx to the rescuse!!11
A chance I regularly read Slashdot so that I remember at all times why I should be scared to do anything online and to keep my eyes wide open on the undeniable fact that big companies and the evil government are all out to find a reason to sue me and throw me in jail! Now excuse me, I have to go watch TV so that I can remember why I should be scared of going out of my house! OMG drugs, guns, gangs and psychopaths!!!11
You just got troll'd!