US government threatened Yahoo with $250,000-per-day fine if it did not hand over user data to NSA

Sooraj Shah
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Yahoo took matter to secret court, but failed to reverse government demands

The US government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 per day if it refused to comply with demands to hand over user data. In a blog post, Ron Bell, general counsel at Yahoo, explains that the fir...

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