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The U.S. government threatened Yahoo with daily fines of $250,000 for refusing to hand over user data as part of the National Security Agency's surveillance programs, Yahoo said Thursday. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review released more than 1,500 pages of previously secret documents related to Yahoo's 2007 challenge to the government's demand for data, the company's general counsel Ron Bell said on Yahoo's Tumblr page. No documents were available immediately, but Yahoo is in the process of making them all public, he said. 雅虎周四称，美国政府威胁将以拒绝向国家安全局监视项目提交用户信息为由对公司进行每日25万美金的罚款。在雅虎的轻博客上，公司法律总顾问隆恩·贝尔称，外国情报监察法庭发布了关于2007年雅虎拒绝向政府提交数据的长达1500页的秘密文件。目前文件还无法获得，但雅虎正致力于将其完全公开。 Back in 2007, after the government "amended a key law to demand user information from online services ... we refused to comply with what we viewed as unconstitutional and overbroad surveillance and challenged the U.S. government's authority," Bell said. But the rulings against Yahoo bolstered the government's argument that national security concerns legally justified the collection of user data from tech firms. 2007年，在政府“修正法律，以要求网络线上服务商提供用户信息之后，我们拒绝配合，因雅虎认为这种行为不但违反宪法，而且是过度监视的体现，从而挑战了政府权威。”贝尔如是说。但是雅虎的反对者认为政府向技术类公司收集用户数据是处于国家安全考虑，应予以支持。 | 
