In the NSA scandal, the secret service forced the Internet groups to use PRISM with unfair means: with a fine of 250,000 dollars a day, the US government wanted to blackmail Yahoo and thus to push the data transfer, which the enterprise as constitutionally contrary, as the Washington Post reports .
This is documented in some censored court documents from 2008. In a blog post, the Yahoo legal adviser Ron Bell described the published documents as proof of how much one had had to fight in order to be able to defend against the monitoring measures.
The dispute between Yahoo and the NSA was negotiated at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) and ended with a defeat for the Internet group. Until last summer these documents had to be kept under lock and key. Google and Microsoft have also challenged the participation in PRISM.
Shortly after the threat of the fine, the FISC judge announced that the instruction would be sealed and not be brought to the public by any party. The fact that the approximately 1500 pages have now received the release, sees Yahoo as an important victory for transparency. The company will soon publish the document.
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