Yahoo! is crowing about how it fought an order to hand over private user information. However, it’s emerged that it gave up after the government threatened fines at $250,000/day, doubling weekly.

In the end, Yahoo! had to accept two courts’ decisions that the order didn’t violate the Fourth Amendment.

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