Un-gagged Yahoo reveals it was 'threatened' with a weekly fine of $7.5m if it failed to comply with NSA surveillance scheme
Yahoo has announced that it was ‘threatened’ by the US government with a fine of $250,000 a day if it failed to provide a US intelligence agency access to millions of users’ online communications, required by law, under a secret surveillance programme.
According to newly released court documents from 2008, the National Security Agency (NSA) demanded that the search engine firm comply with its PRISM programme to give the agency access to the online activity of millions of internet users, regardless of their nationality – a move Yahoo branded “unconstitutional”.
Nonetheless, after losing a court case challenging the legality of the order, Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
