Wired reports on newly disclosed details of a 2008 secret court battle between Yahoo and the National Security Agency (NSA) over the company’s bid to resist the agency’s PRISM surveillance program. According to more than 1,500 pages of court records unsealed this week, Yahoo faced fines of up to $250,000 for each day it did not comply with the NSA. Yahoo had initially resisted a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order in 2007 that required the company to turn over bulk email metadata. “The released documents underscore how we had to fight every step of the way to challenge the U.S. government’s surveillance efforts,” Yahoo General Counsel Ron Bell wrote, adding Yahoo hopes the documents “promote informed discussion about the relationship between privacy, due process and intelligence-gathering.”
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