Yahoo! must get a lot of subpoenas.

[arcadian]

I wonder what they are all for? It's the third option on their customer support line. Something about subpoena compliance.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Been that way for years. although maybe it used to be...

fourth or fifth option a few years ago.

Google, Microsoft, Earthlink, Godaddy... pretty much everyone with a major net presence gets 'em. What they do with them sorta depends-- subpoenas are tougher to get out of than searches requiring warrants.

Privacy ain't private. Never really has been, never will be. Just be responsible for watching your own ass.

[arcadian]

2. What are the nature of the subpeonas?

Private citizen suing another private citizen? Law enforcement suing private citizen? Corporation suing private citizen? Private citizen suing corporation? All of these and more?

[lpbk2713]

3. Divorce lawyers wanting e-mail account passwords might be a big part of it.

:eyes:

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Mostly NSA types tracking usage...

I'm not sure they can actually look at the emails legally (although I have heard from AT&T people that they have "listening posts" attached to ISPs and major servers) but they can see who's emailing whom, and some other stuff.

There are some old-fashioned criminal investigations going on, too, but the Homeland Security spooks are most of it.

[Posteritatis]

4. Any moderately big name companywise is going to get sagans of lawsuits

People wanting access to email accounts, people threatening to sue Yahoo for slander because someone flamed them in IM, people claiming to have a copyright on the letter Y, the works.