Google and Viacom have reached an agreement meant to ease privacy
concerns about YouTube records being handed over to Viacom through a court
order. However, there remain some questions about how exactly the
"anonymizing" of these records will actually work. Until those are answered,
I wouldn't breathe a complete privacy sigh of relief yet.

Google was
ordered to hand over YouTube viewing records earlier this month, as part
of Viacom's copyright infringement lawsuit against the company. Privacy
concerns were immediately raised, causing Viacom to react by saying it
didn't want all the information the court was granting it rights to and
Google saying it
was hopeful the data could be anonymized in some way.

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