U.S. Threatened Yahoo With $250,000 Daily Fine to Get Data
The United States government demanded that Yahoo hand over massive amounts of data back in 2008 or be forced to pay a fine of $250,000 per day, according to the company.
The threat, which was disclosed in documents released by Yahoo on Thursday, is an example of how agencies such as the National Security Agency coerced tech companies including Yahoo, Google, Apple, Facebook and others to comply with PRISM, a data-collection initiative that gathered information about users of those firm's products.
