Feds Wielded Baseball Bat to Win Yahoo's NSA CooperationThe Obama administration threatened Yahoo with fines of $250,000 daily if it wouldn't comply with demands to hand over user information to the NSA, Yahoo has disclosed. Yahoo had filed suit against the demands in 2007, citing the Fourth Amendment. "They basically said you must do this thing that you don't want to do or we'll put you out of business," said ITIF's Daniel Castro.
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Feds Wielded Baseball Bat to Win Yahoo's NSA Cooperation
