Yahoo! has won an important court battle today, which could help fix public perception of the company after it was marred by details of the NSA’s PRISM spying program.
The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) has ruled that the details from Yahoo!’s 2008 case against joining the PRISM program must be made public. In a court order filed on June 14th, 2013, Yahoo! requested that the classified documents from the 2008 court battle be unsealed. Yahoo! hopes that these documents will show the company’s fierce objections to government demands for consumer data.
The US government has until July 29th to provide a time frame for how long the declassification of Yahoo!’s court documents will take. During this time, the US government will have to redact any still-classified information.
Each of the nine Silicon Valley tech companies listed as being part of the PRISM program are still struggling to regain consumer confidence. Facebook and Google have come out and said that their companies don’t give out information unless ordered to by the government. However, recently revealed documents show that Microsoft actually aided the NSA and FBI in making data collection easier.
More PRISM News
New report reveals Microsoft worked with NSA to provide access to Outlook.com, SkyDrive, Skype
July 11, 2013
PRISM: Leaked NSA slides explains real-time monitoring
July 1, 2013
Google fights to reveal FISA data, cites 1st amendment
June 19, 2013
[Source: United States Courts (PDF)]
