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Yahoo! Moves to Dublin to Avoid UK Warrant Powers

posted by janrinok on Friday March 21 2014, @10:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-all-said-this-would-happen dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

"Yahoo! has moved its data controlling business from London to Dublin in a bid to avoid harsh UK security powers that it says has harmed its users, and its business. I left Yahoo! for neomailbox once it was clear that the lack of security of my Yahoo! email continued under Meyers' leadership. The fact their web mail dropped dramatically in quality didn't help either (emails to eff.org were bounced for months (no MX record), but only when sent from my Yahoo! webmail accounts). It's nice to see they are actually doing something to address their lack of security, although it will be a while before I'd go back to Yahoo!. The Guardian article covering this story is here.

It's unfortunate Yahoo! didn't take advantage of Iceland's IMMI initiative and move to Iceland, however it's understandable from a logistical perspective. It's somewhat of a chicken and egg thing, but until Iceland works on the logistical problems businesses face with moving their data operations to Iceland, the attractiveness of Birgitta Jansdottir's IMMI initiative may not be enough to overcome the logistical hardships businesses would have.

Freedom House publishes reports on its concept of freedom on the internet here, although I question some of their metrics."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by moylan on Friday March 21 2014, @10:43PM

    by moylan (3063) on Friday March 21 2014, @10:43PM (#19513)

    considering most of the undersea cables that serve ireland end up in usa or uk can't they just tap the lines there and pretend to to be outraged? aren't they breaking a lot of encryption?
    http://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/ [submarinecablemap.com]

    not like that's not what they did before.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capenhurst#Capenhurs t_tower [wikipedia.org]

  • (Score: 1) by blackest_k on Friday March 21 2014, @11:16PM

    by blackest_k (2045) on Friday March 21 2014, @11:16PM (#19522)

    no doubt they can, but it's going to be a harder task than just taking everything unencrypted just because they can. The price of complete surveillance just went up a lot.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @01:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @01:25PM (#19682)

    Just because there are still ways data can be stolen by governments doesn't mean folks should just give up. Making it as expensive as possible for governments to steal data is all any of us can really do.