{"id":8971,"date":"2013-06-29T09:54:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T09:54:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T09:54:01","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8971","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Secret Court Declassifies Yahoo\u2019s Role in Disclosure Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/28\/secret-court-declassifies-yahoos-role-in-disclosure-fight\/?ref=todayspaper\">Secret Court Declassifies Yahoo\u2019s Role in Disclosure Fight<\/a> by Claire Cain Miller and Nicole Perlroth:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the secret court that authorizes national security surveillance requests, everything is considered confidential \u2014 even the existence of communications between companies and the court. But this week, the court drew back the curtain slightly, declassifying the fact that Yahoo was the company that fought the court in a momentous case in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>In an article on June 13, The New York Times identified Yahoo as the petitioner in the secret court case, which paved the way for the government to force Internet companies to hand over information about foreigners to the National Security Agency\u2018s Prism program, authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8971\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}