On Thursday, approximately 1,500 pages of court documents were released, which showed how federal officials had forced American technology companies to partake in the PRISM program run by the National Security Agency.
The Washington Post reported that the United States government had “threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day in 2008 if it failed to comply with a broad demand to hand over user communications.”
Although Yahoo fought back against the government’s demands, arguing that they were unconstitutional, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review ruled against the company.
In addition to the revelation from the government’s involvement with Yahoo, the company Dropbox released a transparency report on Thursday, which revealed that from January to June 2014, it received 268 requests for user information from law enforcement agencies.
According to The Guardian, those requests “translated into the company handing over content 103 times.” The company also surrendered “non-content” 80 times, which it describes as “subscriber information such as the name and email address associated with the account; the date of account creation and other transactional information like IP addresses.”
Read the Full Article: Source – Ben Swann
http://benswann.com/dropbox-fights-new-nsa-data-grab/
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