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US threatened Yahoo with huge fine over emails

By Pete Yost
Published September 12, 2014 7:36am ET
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US threatened Yahoo with huge fine over emails
FILE - This Oct. 17, 2012, photo, shows a sign in front of Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Yahoo says the government threatened to fine the company $250,000 a day if it did not comply with demands to go along with an expansion of U.S. surveillance laws by surrendering online information, a step the company regarded as unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File) | Marcio Jose Sanchez

WASHINGTON (AP) — Yahoo’s free email service could have cost the company an extra quarter of a million dollars a day.

The government called for the huge fine in 2008 if Yahoo didn’t go along with an expansion of U.S. surveillance by surrendering online information. The company regarded that step as unconstitutional.

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