Yahoo Issues Takedown Notice for Spying Price List

“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, with
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 providers.

“But of all those companies, it appears to be Yahoo’s lawyers
alone who have issued a DMCA takedown notice to Cryptome demanding
the document be removed. Yahoo claims that publication of the
document is a copyright violation, and gave Cryptome owner John
Young a Thursday deadline for removing the document. So far, Young
has refused.”

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