U.S. threatened massive fine to force Yahoo to release data - The Washington Post
Why no company in the US can be trusted: Yahoo secretly fined $250k/day until it gave everything to NSA

The
U.S. government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day in 2008 if it
failed to comply with a broad demand for user data that the company
believed was unconstitutional, according to court documents unsealed
Thursday. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)