美政府威脅雅虎 不參與稜鏡計劃每天罰款25萬
The U.S. government threatened Yahoo with daily fines of $250,000 for refusing to hand over user data as part of the National Security Agency's surveillance programs, Yahoo said Thursday. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review released more than 1,500 pages of previously secret documents related to Yahoo's 2007 challenge to the government's demand for data, the company's general counsel Ron Bell said on Yahoo's Tumblr page. No documents were available immediately, but Yahoo is in the process of making them all public, he said.
雅虎週四稱，美國政府威脅將以拒絕向國家安全域性監視專案提交使用者資訊為由對公司進行每日25萬美金的罰款。在雅虎的輕部落格上，公司法律總顧問隆恩·貝爾稱，外國情報監察法庭釋出了關於2007年雅虎拒絕向政府提交資料的長達1500頁的祕密檔案。目前檔案還無法獲得，但雅虎正致力於將其完全公開。
Back in 2007, after the government "amended a key law to demand user information from online services ... we refused to comply with what we viewed as unconstitutional and overbroad surveillance and challenged the U.S. government's authority," Bell said. But the rulings against Yahoo bolstered the government's argument that national security concerns legally justified the collection of user data from tech firms.
2007年，在政府“修正法律，以要求網路線上服務商提供使用者資訊之後，我們拒絕配合，因雅虎認為這種行為不但違反憲法，而且是過度監視的體現，從而挑戰了政府權威。”貝爾如是說。但是雅虎的反對者認為政府向技術類公司收集使用者資料是處於國家安全考慮，應予以支援。
News broke last June about the National Security Agency and the FBI siphoning of personal data from the main computer servers of nine major U.S. Internet firms including Facebook, Google and Microsoft, as reported by The Post and the London-based Guardian, with documents provided by Edward Snowden. Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft did not have immediate comment.
根據郵報和倫敦衛報去年六月的新聞曝光，愛德華·斯諾登提供的檔案表明國家安全域性和聯邦調查局向包括Facebook，谷歌及微軟在內的9家美國主要網際網路公司提出了上交使用者資料的要求。蘋果公司、Facebook、谷歌和微軟均未給出立即的迴應。
Portions of some released documents remain classified and Yahoo is pressing the court to agree to make those public, as well as other documents that are still classified. "We treat public safety with the utmost seriousness, but we are also committed to protecting users' data," Bell said. "We will continue to contest requests and laws that we consider unlawful, unclear, or overbroad."
部分檔案仍處於機密狀態，雅虎正在向法庭施壓，要求公開所有檔案。“我們將保護公眾資訊保安視為己任，但是我們更要致力於保護使用者資訊。”貝爾說道，“我們將會繼續為所有我們認為不合法、不清晰以及過度寬泛的法規提出質疑。”
