What the betting....
That every page is unreadable due to everything being redacted?
The secret US court that rules on snooping activities by the country's agencies has granted the Yahoo! motion to reveal its 2008 decision justifying the PRISM project. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court said in its order that it has handed over its opinion document and the legal briefs that were submitted by the …
As long as secret gag orders and the secret court still exist I have to assume that there is a new order that tells them to release a few requests that did turn out to relate to crime, and say that's all of it. Don't talk about all the big fishing trips, or direct access to networks...
Yelling Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain, is not working.
Both Liberty and Privacy International (who're taking legal action against GCHQ) have tweeted their support for the 'Stop Tempora' campaign - a petition calling for a Public Inquiry into GCHQ's Tempora programme.
http://www.stoptempora.com
Hopefully with public debate on this and the PRISM programme the security services can be held to account.
Can we stop the childish "!" thing?
It was funny once. Now it just comes across as a cheap immature way to undermine Yahoo for no good reason. It's pathetic.
Yahoo seems to be the only big internet business to at least try to oppose the US gov and its henchmen at the NSA. Give them some fecking respect. They have earned it.
What are you on about? This particular item didn't even have any superfluous exclamation marks. You do realize that the official name of the company is, in fact, Yahoo! Inc., don't you? That's including the exclamation mark. The exclamation mark is, e.g., in their SEC filings and in every other serious, important official document.
Give them some fecking respect. They have earned it.
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"Numerous documents are now in the public domain. As a result, there is no longer a compelling government interest in stopping those of us with knowledge from sharing more information, especially when this information is likely to help allay public concerns," Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith wrote.
The public now hold us in equal contempt with politicians and bankers and are no longer buying our stuff. If you want us to be able to spy on them for you in the future you better cut us some slack and publish something that makes it look like we where not at fault.