By contrast, Yahoo cooperated with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order, although the technical burden on the company appears to have been significantly lighter than the one the F.B.I. “Under FISA, activity is narrowly focused on specific foreign intelligence targets and does not involve bulk collection or use generic key words or phrases,” he said. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe government has not released any intelligence court opinion explaining how the judge interpreted FISA to authorize such surveillance. But that year, the firm fought a legal battle, then secret, before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, challenging a mandate that it turn over, without a warrant, emails from user accounts the F.B.I. Ultimately, the intelligence court ruled against Yahoo, and after being threatened with a huge fine, the company cooperated.

Source: New York Times October 05, 2016 19:58 UTC