US Gov Threatened Yahoo with $250,000++ Fine Per Day For Not Complying With NSA Data Requests [View all]

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Yahoo $250,000 daily fine over NSA data refusal was set to double 'every week'
Company releases 1,500 documents from failed suit against NSA over user data requests and cooperation with Prism compliance


The US government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it refused to hand over user data to the National Security Agency, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday.

In a blogpost, http://yahoopolicy.tumblr.com/post/97238899258/shedding-light-on-the-foreign-intelligence-surveillance the company said the 1,500 pages of once-secret documents http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/11/yahoo-wants-fisa-objections-revealed shine further light on Yahoo’s previously disclosed clash with the NSA over access to its users’ data. The size of the daily fine was set to double every week that Yahoo refused to comply, the documents show.

The papers outline Yahoo’s secret and ultimately unsuccessful legal battle to resist the government’s demands for the tech firm to cooperate with the NSA’s controversial Prism surveillance programme, revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden last year.

“The released documents underscore how we had to fight every step of the way to challenge the US government’s surveillance efforts,” said the company’s general counsel, Ron Bell, in a Tumblr post.



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