The House Foreign Affairs Committee is calling for two Yahoo executives to appear at a November 6th hearing that will address whether or not the company gave false testimony last year in the case of an imprisoned Chinese poet and journalist.
Previously, Yahoo's general counsel told Congress that the company was not aware of why the Chinese government asked for information regarding pro-Democracy advocate Shi Tao (left). In 2004, Yahoo turned over details that helped Beijing police find Shi, and he has since been sentenced to ten years in prison. Now the committee says that Yahoo couldn't have been so clueless with regards to the government's intentions, and wants to find out more about whether the company is truly protecting the privacy rights of its overseas customers.—Gregory Mone
The buying and selling of personal information is a large business. This should be no different.
However this depends on how much data can be lawfully handed over and for which purposes, clearly more thought should have been given on yahoos part - whether they would have come to the same decision is debatable.
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Posted by: Peter White | March 30, 2010 at 11:22 AM
Probably they did but no one cares about this issue anymore. World is spinning and changing all the time
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