Yahoo On What They Shared With The Government

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Yahoo has released a statement regarding the information it has shared with the government and why.

We’ve worked hard over the years to earn our users’ trust and we fight hard to preserve it. To that end, we are disclosing the total number of requests for user data that law enforcement agencies in the U.S. made to us between December 1, 2012 and May 31, 2013. During that time period, we received between 12,000 and 13,000 requests, inclusive of criminal, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and other requests. The most common of these requests concerned fraud, homicides, kidnappings, and other criminal investigations.
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Another notable paragraph:

Democracy demands accountability. Recognizing the important role that Yahoo! can play in ensuring accountability, we will issue later this summer our first global law enforcement transparency report, which will cover the first half of the year. We will refresh this report with current statistics twice a year.
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These stupid requests have nothing to do with PRISM which is all about governments (one in particular) taking all the data they need.

Cheap PR efforts.
 
dgz said:
These stupid requests have nothing to do with PRISM which is all about governments (one in particular) taking all the data they need.

Cheap PR efforts.
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The article clearly mentioned FISA
 
I don't think anyone is denying that these companies do get legal request for information, with the court's approval and stuff like that. All they are showing us is just statistic for something everyone knows about anyway.

It doesn't prove that they do not have other secret means of user's data access that is only available to a certain government agency.
 
The fact that the government can just come up and demand stuff like this (and probably require to keep logs in first place) is why I would never run a company from the US. Better off being based in Canada where we have more freedom and is not a police state. Though our government is getting pretty corrupt these days too.
 
Red Squirrel said:
The fact that the government can just come up and demand stuff like this (and probably require to keep logs in first place) is why I would never run a company from the US. Better off being based in Canada where we have more freedom and is not a police state. Though our government is getting pretty corrupt these days too.
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LOL. FBI/NSA is only getting to where CSIS was 30 years ago.
 
Russell Brand destroys MSNBC hosts,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADJhErmJuoQ

He really pokes the American media with a stick from 6:35 on, where he shifts his attention to government privacy invasions and whistleblowers. He makes the "news cast" look and feel l like the useless fluff entertainers that they are.
 
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