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by justinschuh 4741 days ago
The petitioner is redacted, so why does the title presume it to be Yahoo? Did I miss something?

Also, PRISM is an acronym for Planning Tool for Resource Integration, Synchronization, and Management. Could people please stop abusing it as a term for whatever random scary thing they want to believe the NSA is doing?

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We learned this month that the company was Yahoo. See:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/technology/secret-court-ru...

Thanks, that's certainly useful context. It's a shame the link is a bare PDF, without that background.