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| Oct 27, 2016 | Yahoo releases transparency report in wake of spying revelations | Yahoo released its semiannual transparency report today, the first issued by the company since Reuters revealed earlier this month that Yahoo scanned its users’ email accounts at the behest of the U.S. government.
In an effort to inform con... |
| Oct 26, 2016 | Yahoo Asks James Clapper To Please Let It Talk About The Email Scanning It Did For The Government | After spending several days basking in the fiery glow of negative press (and seeing potential investors walk away from buying the company), Yahoo is asking the government to please please let it talk about the spying it apparently performed... |
| Oct 19, 2016 | Yahoo demands ‘transparency’ from National Intelligence director over security order | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Yahoo revealed on Wednesday that it has submitted... |
| Oct 19, 2016 | Yahoo demands ‘transparency’ from National Intelligence director over security order | Yahoo revealed on Wednesday that it has submitted a letter to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper demanding transparency involving national security orders issued to tech companies around obtaining user data. The move ... |
| Jun 23, 2016 | Yahoo takes steps to remove content posted from ISIS and other terrorist groups | Yahoo wants to ensure its users that its products and services will not be safe havens for terrorist groups. The company has updated its community guidelines to specifically state that it will remove content and “potentially” deactivate acc... |
| Jun 23, 2016 | Yahoo takes steps to remove content posted from ISIS and other terrorist groups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Yahoo wants to ensure its users that its products... |
| Jun 2, 2016 | Yahoo First Company To Publicly Acknowledge It Has Received National Security Letters | Given its history of battling gag orders from the government, there’s some cosmic justice contained in the fact that Yahoo is the first company to publicly disclose the contents of National Security Letters it has received. Before the passa... |
| Jun 2, 2016 | Yahoo Releases National Security Letters After FBI Drops Gag Order: This Is What The Gov't Knows About You | Lauren Keating, Tech Times 02 June 2016, 08:06 am
Yahoo is being transparent when it comes to the subpoenas it received from the government.
On June 1, the company publicly announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) previously... |
| Jun 1, 2016 | Yahoo becomes first company to disclose FBI National Security Letters | Today, Yahoo disclosed its receipt of three national security letters (FBI requests for data that Yahoo is normally barred from disclosing) and published redacted copies of the letters online.
Yahoo says that this disclosure “marks the firs... |
| Jun 1, 2016 | USA Freedom Act allows Yahoo to disclose 3 National Security Letters | For years, tech companies have received demands from federal law enforcement for users’ data — and they’ve had to keep those demands a secret. Today, Yahoo is finally able to share three of the National Security Letters it has received from... |
| Feb 3, 2016 | Apple's Going Dark Doublespeak | “Going Dark” is really two separate, if related, debates. Apple is looking to be the voice of the tech industry on both. The problem is that the company can’t seem to keep its story straight, and it is adopting divergent and incompatible po... |
| Sep 30, 2015 | Band-Aids Can’t Fix Bullet Holes: Silicon Valley and the NSA | There is a lot of bad blood between Silicon Valley companies and the intelligence community. It should not be surprising with what the NSA did to understand why Silicon Valley is pushing back so strongly, with encryption, with lawyers, and ... |
| Jul 28, 2015 | Yahoo has paid over $1 million to security researchers via its bug bounty program | Yahoo is looking for bugs and has paid a great deal to find out how to fix vulnerabilities in its applications. The company reports that to date, it’s paid out more than $1 million to those who have reported bugs. It has received at least 1... |
| Apr 29, 2015 | Tech Companies Line Up Behind Surveillance Reform Bill | A wide range of companies today released their support for a surveillance reform bill that would effectively end the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records.
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Reform Government Surveillance, a... |
| Nov 19, 2014 | In declassified transcript, surveillance judge tells Yahoo: What you don’t know can’t hurt you | On June 19, 2008, Yahoo lawyers appeared before the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, a three-judge panel that convened in Providence, R.I. Yahoo wanted to contest the growing volume of requests it was getting to let f... |
| Nov 19, 2014 | In declassified transcript, surveillance judge tells Yahoo: What you don’t know can’t hurt you | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
On June 19, 2008, Yahoo lawyers appeared before t... |
| Sep 12, 2014 | Yahoo resisted NSA Prism requests -- US government threatened $250,000 daily fines | It's transparency time once again! After Edward Snowden opened the can of NSA surveillance worms, internet users' collected attention has been focused on online privacy. We still don’t know the full extent of the monitoring that took place,... |
| Sep 12, 2014 | Yahoo Threatened With A Secret $250,000 Per Day Fine If It Didn't Comply With NSA PRISM Demands | Back in 2013, a week after the whole PRISM program was first revealed thanks to Ed Snowden’s leaks, it was then revealed that Yahoo had fought a secret legal battle against the program, based on a predecessor to the FISA Amendments Act of 2... |
| Sep 11, 2014 | In 2008, the government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it didn’t hand over user data | In 2008, the U.S. government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it didn’t hand over user data as part of the NSA’s controversial PRISM program, according to court documents released today.
The 1,500 page document outlines Yahoo’s le... |
| May 5, 2014 | Do Not Track: Stop using Yahoo if you're concerned about privacy | It has been mentioned here and there, but to be honest I am very surprised that more of a stink has not been kicked up about Yahoo's announcement last week. Quietly slipped into a blog post by the slightly ironically named Yahoo Privacy Tea... |
| May 1, 2014 | Yahoo is the latest company ignoring Web users’ requests for privacy | Chris Chan reader comments 115 with 81 posters participating
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Yahoo yesterday announced that it will stop complying with Do Not Track signals that Web browsers send on behal... |
| Sep 9, 2013 | Ron Conway: There Needs To Be More Silicon Valley Debate About NSA, But I’m Not The Guy Who Will Lead It | Ron Conway, one of the more powerful investors in Silicon Valley, today defended his position of not getting involved in issues around national security and consumer privacy, saying that he was already busy with too many other causes like g... |
| Jul 18, 2013 | The full PRISM letter Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft are sending congress | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and many more... |
| Jul 18, 2013 | The full PRISM letter Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft are sending congress | Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and many more companies are asking President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress for greater transparency on PRISM, NSA surveillance of Americans, and government requests for data about their customers.
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