That's what happens when you hire lawyers

Viacom to get vast Google information

Privacy advocates are alarmed

So a judge rules that Viacom gets to go on a fishing expedition with several years of viewers ID and videos. You stupid yerks obviously do not understand how statistical sampling works. They don't need all our IDs to reach a valid conclusion. You hired lawyers when you needed experts in another field: mathematics!

But all is not lost. You blew the hearing badly. Go back before the judge and demand that all the data be reviewed; nothing may be discarded or otherwise ignored. Every last little tiny bit must be reviewed and reported on. Should keep the fishers busy for the next ten or twenty years. See a mathematician about this. Hold their nose to the grindstone.

No thanks needed. That's what engineers do. Make the job work in spite of management.