Google, Viacom Clash Over Employee Records
News Viacom suggested the initiative to anonymise the data, and we have been prepared to accept anonymous information since day one," said a Viacom spokesman. They should have agreed a week ago to let us anonymise it.
[July 14, 2008, 9:06]
Hard For File Swappers To Hide Identity
News It's hard to anonymise people on a big public network. File swappers hoping to share music and other works online without exposing their identity to the prying eyes of copyright enforcers face a tough choice.
[July 14, 2003, 7:58]
Google Tightens Up Search Privacy
News Under the new policy announced on Wednesday, which Google expects to have fully implemented by the end of the year, the company will anonymise the final eight bits of the IP address and the cookie data after somewhere between 18 months and 24...
[March 15, 2007, 7:55]
Google Asks Viacom To Respect YouTube User Privacy
News We are asking Viacom to respect users' privacy and allow us to anonymise the logs before producing them under the court's order. Viacom is getting its hands on some of YouTube's sensitive user data as a result of the copyright-infringement lawsuit...
[July 4, 2008, 11:10]
Email Interception Law Faces More Delays
News There has to be some way for people to see the data, but you also need to be able to anonymise some parts of it (under the Data Protection Act)," he said. A key part of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) that will force ISPs to store...
[March 1, 2002, 14:48]
Viacom, YouTube Agree User-info Deal
News We have reached agreement to anonymise the data. YouTube will be allowed to mask important user information from records it must turn over to Viacom, Google said in a blog post on Monday. Viacom and the other litigants have backed off their demand...
[July 15, 2008, 9:01]
Want To Get Personal With Google?
Blog We have declared that we will keep records for 18 months and we think that is a good compromise - 18 months of history is enough to do a good job and even if we anonymise the logs after 18 months then the information is still useful for spell...
[June 19, 2007, 14:06]
