Yahoo Announces Public Disclosure of National Security Letters

Re:Yahoo Announces Public Disclosure of National Security Le... by greglindahl on Thursday June 02, 2016 @01:15AM (#11820531)

The Internet Archive (helped by EFF) got one disclosed in 2008:

https://www.eff.org/cases/archive-v-mukasey

https://www.eff.org/document/national-security-letter-intern...

Yahoo's claiming "This marks the first time any company has been able to publicly acknowledge receiving an NSL as a result of the reforms of the USA Freedom Act." -- which is kind of true, in that IA got one released before the reforms!

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Re:Yahoo Announces Public Disclosure of National Security Le... by morgante on Thursday June 02, 2016 @02:33AM (#11820751)

For an even more technical truth, IA is not a company.

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Re:Yahoo Announces Public Disclosure of National Security Le... by dragonwriter on Thursday June 02, 2016 @09:08AM (#11822117)

Actually, IA is both a company and a corporation. Its legally a charitable non-profit corporation, but that's a specific kinds of company, not a not-a-company. So, your "technical truth" isn't.

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Re:Yahoo Announces Public Disclosure of National Security Le... by morgante on Thursday June 02, 2016 @02:10PM (#11824734)

Well, I agree that IA is a corporation as that is a legal structure. Technically a "company" has to be commercial in nature, at least if you go by the dictionary definition.

This is entirely too pedantic though, and it rather upsets me that people feel the need to down vote this.

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Re:Yahoo Announces Public Disclosure of National Security Le... by woodman on Thursday June 02, 2016 @04:06AM (#11821035)

Technically it is, colloquially it isn't.

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Re:Yahoo Announces Public Disclosure of National Security Le... by cjak on Thursday June 02, 2016 @03:20AM (#11820893)

Technically correct, the best type of correct.

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