Google has finally given up on it's refusal to comply with California State law which requires any website which serves residents of California to provide a link on their homepage to their privacy policy.

For the longest time Google had refused to comply with this simple law aimed at protecting consumers but now Google has basically turned around and done exactly what it said it would not due which is place a link to it's privacy policy on it's homepage.

In yet another slam to Google a Federal Judge ordered Google to release many terabytes of logs from its webservers that host YouTube over to Viacom and to the Court which essentially will make IP Addresses and other information available to Viacom and the general public.

What does this mean? It means Viacom and other companies can launch a volley of lawsuits against individual users of YouTube by subpoenaing logs from Internet Service Providers and getting personal information of users of YouTube.