On the surface this looks awfully simple, but could there be a terribly complicated plot that is hidden away from everything? Maybe, this is just another stupid theory! Anyway, from reading comments on the web by various anonymous users across the board regard to Yahoo’s recent hiccup which is on its Compliance Guide for Law Enforcement. Yahoo sent out a DMCA takedown to a website known as Cryptome.org to ask the website’s owner to take down the document regards its Compliance Guide for Law Enforcement. Why Yahoo has to be concerned about this? Yahoo says that Cryptome.org is violating Yahoo’s copyright, and Cryptome.org is showing the criminals how to avoid Yahoo’s spying techniques.
In Yahoo’s Compliance Guide for Law Enforcement, it shows that Yahoo is selling customers’ various information to the government with the prices range from $30 to $80. Various comments I read elsewhere suggest that Yahoo does not want information on its business with the government to be leaked out in fear of bad reputation. Yahoo, like many other big corporations, spends huge sum of money in building good image and relation to the public, and its involvement with selling information to the government may undue all of its past PR campaigns. Others also suggest that the government is spending money to fund free projects like Yahoo’s free email services and so on, just so to keep an eye on everyone; you could say this theory is way out there! Nonetheless, many theories are so interesting even though we have to admit that those belong to the realm of conspiracy. This is why from the beginning, I play with words and wrote that this look simple on the surface, but maybe not.
Yahoo is not the only company that has been reported about dealing with the government, but many other big corporations were reported of doing similar things, although circumstances could be less or more in differences, according to Cryptome.org. As of now, Cryptome.org is refusing to pull Yahoo’s Compliance Guide for Law Enforcement off of its website, and the webmaster of Cryptome.org (John Young) demands Yahoo to produce a grant of copyright on its Compliance Guide for Law Enforcement, albeit it’s a lawful document. Normal people like us read into Yahoo’s Compliance Guide for Law Enforcement document, we can get a better sense of how Yahoo retains users’ information as some of us do care about privacy. According to Wired.com, when a user deletes his or her emails from trash folder, Yahoo cannot search or restore those deleted emails. And so on… What do you think about Yahoo’s Compliance Guide for Law Enforcement and its DMCA takedown which sent to Cryptome.org?
