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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."

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  1. 3..2..1.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I told you so. Think how many times, before this, the government has requested data, and it's been right there for the taking. Pay attention also to the legislation that requires Google to keep its mouth shut even if it wanted to.

    That is also, of course, the answer to your "why don't Google anonymize?" Google and big gov are a great symbiosis. "Do No Evil" is as credible as "The Party is working for you, comrade".

  2. YUO FAIL iT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  3. tubgirl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  4. Re:Not much of a problem... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Actually, Java has been working fine without the need for cookies for years now. It's due to the clever new "Just-In-Time" virtual machines, that optimize cookie-related code dynamically at runtime.
    The result? code that runs (at least) fifty times that from a modern C++ compiler, regardless of any cookie operations.

  5. VIACOM CONTROLLED BY JEWS by inTheLooo · · Score: 0, Troll

    And Jews controlled all branches of U.S. government. You can't fight.

    The CEO is named Sumner Redstone, a.k.a. Sumner Rothstein.

    and here is a intersting article about viacom:

    *********

    CBS/Viacom Media Monster owns faggot/pervert TV Channel!

    TV just for Perverts...

    Summer Redstone
    CBS/Viacom owns over 40 TV stations,
    187 radio stations, Paramount Studios, Blockbuster Video, cable channels like Nickelodeon, VH1, MTV , Comedy channel, Spike TV, Country Music TV, Nigger channel BET (Black Entertainment TV), Showtime and more.
    Also: Simon-Schuster Book Publishing, over 2000 movie theatres, theme parks, magazines...The monster called Viacom is the world's largest distributor of all syndicated Television programming.

    Regular meals of degenerate poison are cooked up by Jewboy CEO Summer Redstone, AKA Murray Rothstein. Roach Redstone holds 71% of the voting interest on the Viacom board. This hooked-nosed swine can do whatever he wants with the second largest media conglomerate in America.

    LOGO is the all-gay basic cable television channel! Created by the race-mixers at MTV,

    Logo website: http://www.logoonline.com/

    Why does America need A channel sponsored by the Jews that encourages perverts to have sex with little boys?

    What will they come up with next?

    YOUNGBUTT: The Gay Priest Channel?
    NAMBLA: the Anal Rape Network?

    Hang on to the vaseline America, with the Jews are running our media your children are sure to get screwed!