Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Court Order Google to Turn Over Youtube Data :: GLOBAL ::

Almost every person who use the internet has one time over another watch the video on Youtube. In April alone, 82 million Americans viewed over 4 billion clips on the website. In this case, Viacom winning the lawsuit against Youtube owner of Google forcing the company to hand over its record of what people are watching on Youtube. Invasion of privacy or this is necessary legal tool?



Comment:

In my opinion, by giving away user's information, it will resulted in privacy disaster. For me it is not necessary to settle the case. Frankly, i don't know who would use the internet and use the tools anymore if they knew every time they access someone else would know about it.

The court are allow to access to private data. That means user no longer exist anonymously on the internet world. They can't just hide behind the computer and assume there is no consequences of what they do. The big company, Viacom, claiming that people were violating and infringing upon their intellectual property right that is why Viacom bring the case to court forcing Google to reveal user's record.

By law, the data user must reveal data to the 3rd party if and only if the defendant found guilty of such offenses and it is a court order to reveal the data. In this case, resulted in Viacom winning the lawsuit against Youtube owner of Google forcing the company to hand over its record of what people are watching on Youtube.

Besides that, it is necessary to hand over the record if they have a really strong reason on the purpose of collecting data such as for the purpose of upgrading and enhancing the system and security, buying and selling purposes, developing a new competitive product relating to business environment, and legal issues.

Finally, it is okay and considerable to hand over only data of individual who committed to such offense and keep respect of as well as not involving other data privacy.

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