Yahoo won the court fight, can help the public learn more about the government's efforts to obtain data from Internet users.
U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to review the request of the Government spying on individuals, Monday ruled about 2008 cases, ordered Yahoo to hand over customer data information should be made ??public.
To urge the Government to review some comments, briefs and arguments can decrypt and report back on July 29 to the court.
NSA PRISM data collection procedures, the government is trying to information from Yahoo. Hosted by former National Security Agency Edward Snowden, he has fled the United States disclosed a secret plan
The plan was discovered in early June, the "Washington Post" and the documents published by the Guardian newspaper Snowden. It allows the NSA to meet U.S. companies such as Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, Google Inc. and other data streams, and grab email, video chat, pictures and more. U.S. officials have said the plan is narrowly focused on foreign targets and technology companies say they turn over information only when required by a court order.
Yahoo requires in court documents submitted on June 14 2008 in the case unsealed information. Yahoo spokesman said Monday welcomed the decision and said that the company believes it will help inform the public discuss the U.S. government surveillance program.
Government has not taken the position should announce the details of the case, as long as it allows reviewing documents before publication redact classified information, according to the court order.
Staff Attorney Mark Rumold, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in electronic surveillance and national security issues, called the ruling increment, and said that he reserved the judgment, actually released until the case details.
"It's still seen coming (the government)," Rumold said. "The government has said they want to have a debate on the adequacy of monitoring, but they did not really provide information to inform the debate, so declassify these views is a very important place to start."
Unpacking the secret ruling is not without precedent, but it is rare. Rumold said that the last time this happened was in 2002, on the "Patriot Act" in the case.
 



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