Few years ago, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) under the Department of Information Technology has requested cooperation from yahoo in blocking/deleting
kynhun yahoogroup, which is "promoting anti-national news and contained material against Government of India & State Government of Meghalaya." and yahoo's reluctance made Department of Telecommunications at the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology to issue an order directing ISPs to block kynhun Yahoogroup(it is another story that most of ISPs messed up by blocking entire yahoogroups website for some days since they don't had technical know-how to block specific yahoogroup), now it was
reported that Yahoo provided chinese investigating organizations with information that helped link journalist Shi Tao's personal e-mail account and the text of the message to his computer. As per BBC report, Shi Tao was found guilty of sending foreign-based websites the text of an internal Communist Party message and sentenced to 10 years.
Yahoo spokeswoman Mary Osako said
"Just like any other global company, Yahoo must ensure that its local country sites must operate within the laws, regulations and customs of the country in which they are based"
It should be noted that earlier this month yahoo had invested $1 billion in china's firm Alibaba.com.
3 comments:
Wow ! So much for anonymity on the web
and i tot emails were safe.
When we connect to net we are allotted a IP address, so it is easy for investigative agency to identify surfer with the help of ISP, We can remain anonymous only if we can mask our IP address using proxy servers. There were cases in India where cyber cops have caught many people who had harassed girls through emails and we have famous case of Gujarat CM, where someone sent a death threat to him through email and that person was caught and he turned out to be muslim software professional and out of mercy modi let him off without any charges.
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