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   Weird Harold, Mar 3rd, 2009 @ 2:15pm

   
   

   Perhaps you have heard of yahoo.cn? I believe that Yahoo in China is partially owned by a chinese company, so they are operating directly in China. That would change everything, no?

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   Mike (profile), Mar 3rd, 2009 @ 2:16pm

   
   

   That would change everything, no?
   
   In Belgium?
   
   This post was about what they're doing in Belgium, not China.

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   Easy Solution

   

   :Lobo Santo, Mar 3rd, 2009 @ 2:21pm

   
   

   Yahoo could take up a policy along the lines of:
   "User info? Naw, we don't have any."

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   Re: Easy Solution

   

   Anonymous Coward, Mar 3rd, 2009 @ 2:30pm

   
   

   "User info? Naw, we don't have any. Unless you want to purchase it..."

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   Weird Harold, Mar 3rd, 2009 @ 3:14pm

   
   

   It just means Mike that their reaction in China would be different than their reaction in Belgium.
   
   Want to speculate on potenial market size differences too?

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   Anonymous Coward, Mar 3rd, 2009 @ 4:14pm

   
   

   belgians are champion yodlers so yahoo is important to them

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   Keepin Dr. Evil at bay, no more requests for "100 billion dollars"

   

   Anonymous Coward, Mar 3rd, 2009 @ 4:43pm

   
   

   Belgium is where Dr. Evil came from, so this makes sense.

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   Harold is weird

   

   Anonymous Cow, Mar 3rd, 2009 @ 6:19pm

   
   

   Harold is weird.
   
   The tone, the language ... reminds me of another poster from days gone by ........

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   Geez

   

   ChurchHatesTucker (profile), Mar 3rd, 2009 @ 6:25pm

   
   

   Cynical, I may be. But when someone backs down from the seventh-grade bully, but stands up to that girl in kindergarten, I'm not impressed.
   
   OTOH, they're doing better than google, if only by a smidge.

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    Allen (profile), Mar 4th, 2009 @ 12:22am

    
    

    I wouldn't take this as some sign that Yahoo are suddenly taking a stand for privacy. If Yahoo had an operating arm in Belgium and the request was lawful (under Belgian Law) then Yahoo would have handed the information over.
    
    The question of jurisdiction defined by borders on a network that mostly ignores them is not a new one.

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    It cuts both ways

    

    Anonymous Coward, Mar 4th, 2009 @ 9:15am

    
    

    Belgium isn’t doing anything that the US doesn’t do and hasn’t done itself. From Privacy International explains risks to census data by using U.S. contractor without strong protections:

    Information inaccessible to a U.S. party, or barred from disclosure by foreign law, still may be disclosed to U.S. law enforcement. Assuming a U.S. court or agency can gain jurisdiction, a five part balancing test determines whether the U.S. entity should be granted access to the requested information.

    …extra-territorial jurisdiction gives U.S. courts the authority to act against entities that are not in the U.S. as long as they are engaging in behavior that has an impact within the United States.

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