Re:Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy
by sroussey on Saturday November 15, 2025 @11:25AM
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Yahoo got sued for not fighting it long enough to give a chance for the third party to quash on their own. If I remember correctly, they lost. But the case had a good argument of fairness to the little people whose data is just being given away and people fired or harassed because of it.
Anyhow, we worked with Public Citizen on a couple of cases and they were willing to fund to Supreme Court in order to set good precedent.
I've been in the situation of being instructed to pull unredacted logs for a subpoena before when I really did not think it was appropriate. I was just an IC but I talked to a lawyer about it. Since the company I worked for was not willing to fight it, my options were pull the logs, quit the job, or possibly catch a contempt charge.
It seems like everyone who is not the CEO or maybe the legal dept has much more constrained choices in this situation. I also wonder if the timeframes matter here, how much things may have changed in two decades. My experience with it was only a couple years ago, and I was surprised they chose not to fight it but presumably they know more about the chances of success than I do.