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| From | Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Yahoo move to Ireland for GCHQ security reasons |
| Date | 2014-03-24 20:58 +0100 |
| Organization | PostgreSQL and SQLite |
| Message-ID | <pcf60b-tkb.ln1@news.chingola.ch> (permalink) |
| References | <lgngdm$312$1@solani.org> <8h80j9tpt7rdic2sf4pva8nfo7ucrkr7su@4ax.com> |
On 2014-03-24, JJ <jjdane@nospamgmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 20:32:55 +0000 (UTC), RS Wood ><rsw@therandymon.com> wrote: >> >>Internet firm is known to be unhappy about snooping and would be under no >>obligation to hand over material under Irish laws >> > And of course, the Irish tax system was never a consideration. It was > all just to protect the information of their users, just as you'd > expect of Yahoo. > > I claim BS.. Yahoo are claiming that they started planning a move to Eire before anyone had heard of Snowden: <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/21/yahoo_exodus_snooping_concerns/> "Yahoo! pointed us towards a press release from March 2013 about its plans to hire 200 new people in its Dublin operations centre in arguing that it was simply following a long-standing business plan that was in motion long before the Edward Snowden revelations began last June." -- Paul Sture "In that case," said Napoleon, "let us wait twenty minutes; when the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him."
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Yahoo move to Ireland for GCHQ security reasons RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-23 20:32 +0000
Re: Yahoo move to Ireland for GCHQ security reasons Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-03-24 07:28 +0000
Re: Yahoo move to Ireland for GCHQ security reasons greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-03-24 09:55 +0000
Re: Yahoo move to Ireland for GCHQ security reasons comp.misc@expires-on-2014-04-02.usenet.andreas-borchert.de (Andreas F. Borchert) - 2014-03-25 16:25 +0000
Re: Yahoo move to Ireland for GCHQ security reasons greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-03-24 08:58 +0000
Re: Yahoo move to Ireland for GCHQ security reasons JJ <jjdane@nospamgmail.com> - 2014-03-24 13:20 +0100
Re: Yahoo move to Ireland for GCHQ security reasons Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-24 20:58 +0100
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