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Can Yahoo Keep A Secret?

  • ASSME, Wednesday, December 9, 2009 3:17 PM
Regardless of one's philosophical inclinations, here's a story that's likely to heat the blood. Wikileaks has published Yahoo's "compliance guide for law enforcement," which details what information the Web portal will provide to authorities with the proper legal clearance. Upon request, authorities can gain access to subscriber info, including IP addresses connected to logins -- which they keep for up to a year; registration IP address data for Yahoo "nicks" registered since 1999; "any email available in the user's mail account, including IP address of computer used to send email"; virtually all your Chat or Messenger information; Yahoo Groups info, and "pretty much all your shit on Flickr."

What's more, "Yahoo has a co-branded services with AT&T," the company writes in the guide. "For customers with email addresses that have an SBC or AT&T suffix, AT&T has the primary customer relationship ... In such cases it is most appropriate to direct legal process first to AT&T."

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