You are right. IPs are public domain when Google wants to harvest them, and private data when they are being sued. Double standard. - J. Phil

Not quite. Google has been consistent that IP addresses, "without more", can't be used to identify someone. Viacom wanted, and the judge has granted, additional information that can be used in conjunction with IP addresses to identify individual users. - mrshl

mrshl, and I'm arguing that Google argues with the EU that things AREN'T private when they want to collect them, but then tells the US Courts that they ARE private when they don't want to share them. They can't play it both ways. - Cyndy

and i'm saying that google's job is always to defend its data, and consequently its users. let me know if you don't want them spending THEIR money in defending YOUR data. that's what they're doing. incidentally, most sophisticated sites log IP addresses for some amount of time. and most sites also have user IDs and search logs. all of them would take the stand google is taking here. - mrshl

and again, i take issue with the idea that google's having it both ways. they oppose any effort by viacom to get both IP addresses and the data that can be used to make such information identifiable. it's one thing to defend your ability to collect user information. quite another to defend against another site's discovery request for that same information. we gave that info to google, not viacom. - mrshl

I like it so far. Need more toys though... - Kaylin Quinn via twhirl

Yes, not bad, but actually they don't import the friends as I expected (like connecting you to them in this service), they just offer you lists of your friends nicknames everywhere. And I don't think it will work if I send a message with Swurl to some friend of mine who I am connected on StumbleUpon and who is not there yet. So no real point in importing friends so far, I think. And I'm kind of tired - it's the 3rd one in a week! - Svetlana Gladkova

Just watch the fact they repost your content in full, least the did when I reviewed it a couple of weeks back. You could switch that off though for memory - Duncan Riley

Thanks for the info Duncan, I'm not sure what I should do about that one anyway. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl