The wife of a Yahoo user jailed in China for promoting democracy online is suing the internet search engine company for helping Chinese officials track him down and convict him.
A suit filed in federal court in San Francisco yesterday by the wife of Wang Xiaoning accuses Yahoo of "aiding and abetting" torture and human rights violations by linking her husband and others to email and online comments.
Yahoo was referred to 10 times in the Chinese court verdict on September 12, 2003 that declared Wang guilty of "incitement to subvert state power" and sentenced him to a decade in prison.
This was already noted that Yahoo was blamed for the arrest and beating for handing info on bloggers to China, however now it's a lawsuit
Meh. If they want to conduct business in that country, they have to follow that countries rules; same as they do here. Sounds to me like they just followed government orders.
(lets not make this into an issue over their form of government - it is what it is and the case should be evaluated not on how things -should- be but on how they are)
Yahoo can't exactly say no if a government asks them for information. I'm sure on Yahoo China in their Privacy Policy it is noted that they will hand over relavent information if they are asked to. I doubt she'll win the case in China.
Yahoo can't exactly say no if a government asks them for information. I'm sure on Yahoo China in their Privacy Policy it is noted that they will hand over relavent information if they are asked to. I doubt she'll win the case in China.
Yahoo can't exactly say no if a government asks them for information. I'm sure on Yahoo China in their Privacy Policy it is noted that they will hand over relavent information if they are asked to. I doubt she'll win the case in China.
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