Yahoo Issues Takedown Notice for Spying Price List

December 4th, 2009 admin

Yahoo isn’t happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides law enforcement agencies has leaked onto the web. Shortly after Threat Level reported this week that Yahoo had blocked the FOIA release of its law enforcement and intelligence price list, someone provided a copy of the company’s spying guide to the whistleblower site Cryptome. The 17-page guide describes Yahoo’s data retention policies and the surveillance capabilities it can provide law enforcement, and includes a pricing list for these services. Cryptome also published lawful data interception guides for Cox Communications, SBC, Cingular, Nextel, GTE and other telecoms and service…


Originally posted on Wired

 
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