Yahoo! Resisted PRISM, And Can Now Prove It

[daddywalter]

Defenders of PRISM and similar activities frequently say, "If you don't have anything to hide you don't have anything to fear." Let's point that argument the other way: what does the government have to hide about its spying on me? What reason does it have for gathering data from my phone calls and Internet activity, and that of millions of other American citizens who, presumably, aren't accused or even suspected of any unlawful activity? If you don't need it, Big Brother, stop doing it and save us a few billion taxpayer dollars; focus on the known (or at least suspected) bad guys, and expand your focus only as you find a reason to. Oh, and _do it yourself_ instead of coercing private enterprise to secretly cooperate with you.