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To: LibWhacker

By users, do they mean gmail user ID, or actually any anonymous user by IP address? If so, this information could be also be used by other inquirers to track those who have viewed political videos as well, or left comments at sites, viewed “rumors” in the news, etc. etc...

They’re already doing this for China, evidently.

got tinfoil?


5 posted on 07/03/2008 8:34:24 AM PDT by dandelion
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To: dandelion
...must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube

When it happens to FreeRepublic, they'll want to know the ip address of every user who has ever clicked on a FreeRepublic link, how long he or she viewed it before clicking on another FR link, and (if he was a registered user) every comment he ever made on FR (including all the FreepMail he exchanged with other Freepers).

This will be a very, very bad precedent if it stands (I just wish I knew what those odds were).

10 posted on 07/03/2008 8:55:02 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: dandelion; Fred Nerks; sono; doug from upland; SE Mom; holdonnow

Exactly.

Welcome to Communism.

Where are the champions of privacy, the ACLU?

Nevermind.


66 posted on 07/04/2008 12:02:52 PM PDT by AliVeritas (If you don't love this country, tear up your passport, leave and live under a dictator.)
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