U.S. threatened fine to force Yahoo on data
(Angel Navarette / Bloomberg)
The U.S. government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day in 2008 if it failed to comply with a demand to hand over user data, according to new court documents that show how federal officials forced tech firms to participate in the NSA’s PRISM program.
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