But he makes some good points, especially about the heavy use of the word "volunteer" and also "give", all which imply Yahoo! isn't freely giving access to the NSA. Yahoo! never said that they were disallowing NSA lawful requests for bulk data, which is the topic of concern.
(Of course Yahoo! isn't volunteering information, that is not concern at all, if the NSA demands then its not volunteering information)
The issue is that all the PR from Facebook, Google and Yahoo! are using very specific non-broad language to say they are not doing a very certain thing, a thing that is not the concern. The concern is about lawful access to all servers and not one piece of PR said this was not happening.
(In the current definition everything the NSA is doing would be considered lawful as the Government post 9/11 is able to use its various provisions to allow for a whole manner of things that we might disagree with, but we are not writing the law, they are.)
(Of course Yahoo! isn't volunteering information, that is not concern at all, if the NSA demands then its not volunteering information)
The issue is that all the PR from Facebook, Google and Yahoo! are using very specific non-broad language to say they are not doing a very certain thing, a thing that is not the concern. The concern is about lawful access to all servers and not one piece of PR said this was not happening.
(In the current definition everything the NSA is doing would be considered lawful as the Government post 9/11 is able to use its various provisions to allow for a whole manner of things that we might disagree with, but we are not writing the law, they are.)