Yahoo report discloses thousands of Government requests for data
Yahoo has been found to have handed over private and personal information about hundreds of its users to Australian government agents, Australian media has reported.
The report covers the first 6 months of 2013
The revelations are sourced from a transparency report released by Yahoo covering the first six months of 2013.
In that period, it is reported that Australian government agents made 704 requests for access to data from 799 Yahoo accounts. Yahoo granted “full access” to 11 of the requests, supplied “non-content data" to a further 305, and rejected 242 of the requests.
The report stated that US government agents made 12,444 requests for data in the same six month period.
"We carefully review government requests to determine the appropriate scope of data to be provided and interpret them narrowly in an effort to produce the least amount of data necessary to comply with the request," Yahoo said in a statement.
It said it only supplied data "in response to valid, compulsory legal process from a government agency with proper jurisdiction and authority."