“If Congress protects records about what movies you rent and TV channels you watch, it should equally protect records about what you do online.” - Inspired by a court order requiring Google to turn over Youtube activity records.

Google was recently mandated under court order to turn over records of activity on YouTube, such as the user names and IP addresses of video watchers, because Viacom claimed that YouTube users were guilty of copyright infringement. Viacom could technically use this information to sue individual YouTube users.

While individuals are protected from having information about the movies they rent, the TV channels the watch, and of course financial and medical information, given out, the same level of protection does not exist for most of their online activities.