Yahoo dodges privacy issue
p2p news / p2pnet: From the look of it, Yahoo doesn’t particularly care about keeping confidential information on users, confidential.
It already stands accused of willingly providing China with data which resulted in at least two cyber dissidents being jailed, and during yesterday’s congressional hearing into the fact Yahoo, Microsoft, Google and Cisco are helping Chinese censors, lawyer Michael Callahan refused to say whether or not the company opens records for US government surveillance without a court order.
"Michael Callahan (right), Yahoo’s senior vice president and general counsel, declined five times to answer that question from Rep. Brad Sherman, a California Democrat who was probing whether the Internet company had cooperated with the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance efforts," says CNET News.
"It wouldn’t be appropriate for me to comment," said Callahan, who was testifying under oath. He added that Yahoo would ‘only turn over information if it’s required by law’.”
But Callahan refused to say whether a demand from the NSA, not backed by a court order, qualified.
Also See:
CNET News – Yahoo on NSA surveillance: No comment, February 15, 2006
helping Chinese censors – Firms’ China actions ‘abhorrent’, February 15, 2006
