SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The government of the United States threatened in 2008 with Yahoo fined $ 250,000 a day if not delivered customer data to intelligence agencies, according to documents released Thursday.
These documents shed new light on how the government dealt with American Internet companies that were reluctant to comply with court orders in foreign intelligence surveillance, FISC by the acronym, competent to decide on government requests for surveillance processes directing national security issues.
Yahoo lost the battle, which according to experts paved the way to the surveillance program Prism uncovered last summer by the former employee of the NSA (National Security Agency), Edward Snowden.
“There was always something behind the curtain of what Internet companies do when they receive these requests. Now have evidence that Yahoo actually fought in this battle and faced hefty fines if not show the data, “the executive director of EPIC (acronym for Private Information Centre Eléctronica) said.
” It tells how seriously the Bush administration took the signatures of Internet surrender these data. Until his revelation, more than anything it was rumored that wanted to impose these fines. “
A secret document sent to court by the American government demanded that Yahoo might make him pay a minimum fine of $ 250,000 for each day it refuses to deliver the data of users, amount would double every week.
American Internet companies want to reveal everything you can about these little known processes in which federal agencies asking them user data via secret tribunals, partly for fear of the possible impact of this in your business.
On Thursday, Yahoo said it would begin to make public some 1,500 classified pages documenting the long fight he had with the government.
“Despite the declassification and publication, parts of the documents remain sealed and classified to date, unknown even to our team,” said Yahoo’s general counsel, Ron Bell, an entry in blog in the Yahoo Web site Thursday.
The FISC, whose members are appointed by the head of the American Supreme Court has never held a public meeting and usually just listen Juscicia Department lawyers and intelligence agency.
this year, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google began to publish details about the number of secret data requests from the government, hoping to show their lack of involvement with the controversial surveillance by United States.
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