Yahoo Fined By Belgian Court For Refusing To Give Up E-Mail Account Info

Mon, Mar 2nd, 2009

A court in Dendermonde, Belgium, today found Internet company Yahoo guilty of withholding personal account information linked to Yahoo e-mail addresses. The court told the company to cough up a €55,000 fine right away and an additional €10,000 for each day it keeps refusing to hand over the user data. (or $69,197 and $12,590, respectively)

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