Yahoo FOUGHT against NSA's warrantless spying program but lost

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Yahoo's top lawyers had a courtroom showdown with the National Security Agency after it had demanded information on certain foreign users without a warrant, but the tech giant lost and was forced to hand over the data, it was revealed today.

Court documents obtained by the New York Timesshow that the Internet company had initially refused to join the PRISM spying program, insisting that the broad national security requests seeking users' personal information were unconstitutional. However, the secret court operating under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) sided with the NSA and forced Yahoo's hand.

Information about Yahoo's legal battle against the NSA first emerged in a heavily redacted court order, but the name of the company involved had not been released until now. It was claimed that besides Yahoo, a number of major Silicon Valley companies became part of PRISM, among them Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, YouTube, Skype, AOL and the lesser known Internet company PalTalk, which has hosted a lot of traffic during the Arab Spring and the on-going Syrian civil war.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-secret-court-join-PRISM.html#ixzz2WJ5F4HZx
 
I've left the room maybe a total of three times during my entire stay. All my options are bad.

I could be rendered by the CIA. I could have people come after me. Or any of the third-party partners. They work closely with a number of other nations. Or they could pay off the Triads. Any of their agents or assets.

We have got a CIA station just up the road, the consulate here in Hong Kong, and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be.
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
Yahoo's top lawyers had a courtroom showdown with the National Security Agency after it had demanded information on certain foreign users without a warrant, but the tech giant lost and was forced to hand over the data, it was revealed today.

Court documents obtained by the New York Timesshow that the Internet company had initially refused to join the PRISM spying program, insisting that the broad national security requests seeking users' personal information were unconstitutional. However, the secret court operating under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) sided with the NSA and forced Yahoo's hand.

Information about Yahoo's legal battle against the NSA first emerged in a heavily redacted court order, but the name of the company involved had not been released until now. It was claimed that besides Yahoo, a number of major Silicon Valley companies became part of PRISM, among them Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, YouTube, Skype, AOL and the lesser known Internet company PalTalk, which has hosted a lot of traffic during the Arab Spring and the on-going Syrian civil war.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-secret-court-join-PRISM.html#ixzz2WJ5F4HZx
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wait.....they fought it in a court room......how do you get a court order allowing you to obtain documents without a court order?.........don't you then, obviously, HAVE a court order?......
 
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