Happy Independence Day! 232 Years Later, They’re Still Watching.

Our government troubles itself with a lot of important things. The economy. Making other countries do what we say. Education. What you’re watching on YouTube.

Yep, all those videos you’ve been watching are going to be handed over to the government along with your user id and IP address. Why? Well because some of the government’s biggest customers – big business – are concerned about copyright infringement.

Specifically Viacom, companies fear their content is being used wihtout any royalties being paid.

You think? Doesn’t this pretty much apply to the whole Internet? The Electronic Frontier Foundation calls this a setback to privacy, saying all user’s viewing habits will be under scrutiny. Me? I call it expected. People, what did you think was going to happen? You didn’t think the government was going to let all this behavior go un-noticed much longer?

Don’t say you weren’t warned.