{"id":594,"date":"2009-07-18T15:50:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T22:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=594"},"modified":"2009-07-18T15:50:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T22:50:13","slug":"geek-throughts-yahoo-learns-a-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2009\/07\/geek-throughts-yahoo-learns-a-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Throughts: Yahoo! learns a Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to this <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20090716\/0405415571.shtml\">article<\/a>, the big Y has been fined by a Belgian court for not turning over user information. Bypassing normal channels, Belgian officials went directly to the company demanding information, a similar situation that has come up before. (But unlike the Chinese incidents, this one directly involves the US headquarters.)<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo! deserves applause for not only standing up for users, but also for learning from the past.<\/p>\n<p>More collected Geek Thoughts at http:\/\/<a href=\"http:\/\/geekthoughts.info\/\">geekthoughts<\/a>.info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article, the big Y has been fined by a Belgian court for not turning over user information. Bypassing normal channels, Belgian officials went directly to the company demanding information, a similar situation that has come up before. (But unlike the Chinese incidents, this one directly involves the US headquarters.) Yahoo! deserves applause&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[284],"tags":[809,808,444,806,807,1159],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekthoughts","tag-belgium","tag-censorship","tag-china","tag-geekthroughts","tag-privacy","tag-yahoo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-9A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}