U.S. threatened Yahoo with big fines for not divulging user data
"The federal government once threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day for not complying with a national security-related request to hand over user data, the company said Thursday.
The announcement comes as part of a larger revelation: Some 1,500 pages of documents related to Yahoo's 2007-08 case challenging U.S. surveillance law are being released, the company's general counsel, Ron Bell, said on Tumblr.
Cases in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which reviews government requests to spy on individuals, are classified.
"The released documents underscore how
we had to fight every step of the way to challenge the U.S. government’s surveillance efforts," Bell said.
Yahoo said it was working to make the documents available online."
Source:
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-yahoo-spying-user-data-20140911-story.html