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YouTube and Viacom reach data deal

By Kevin Allison in San Francisco

Published: July 16 2008 03:00 | Last updated: July 16 2008 03:00

YouTube, the online video site owned by Google, has struck a deal to strip potentially compromising personal information out of reams of user data that it is being forced to hand over to Viacom.

The deal, which was agreed between the two companies' lawyers on Monday, comes a week after a federal judge ordered YouTube to hand over 12 terabytes of data logs to Viacom's lawyers.

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