The federal government used the threat of a massive daily fine to attempt to force Yahoo turn over user data in 2008, the company announced on Thursday.
http://www.dailydot.com/politics/yahoo-government-data-fine/
Holy shit, I want to see how this turns out, oh American politics (*pulls out popcorn) Sadly, I live in this political mess, but it is better than Russia
I think Yahoo should have broken the Law. Straight up and released exactly why they were being bankrupted. Before the Snowden Leaks. Just a mass email to its' users and a report to The Guardian or something. It would have put the government on reaction and if our natural disaster help is any proof they would suck at it and maybe the NSA would have been checked along time ago.