A year ago, someone lodged a complaint against Yahoo! in Hong Kong regarding jailed activist Shi Tao. This month, there’s another suit against Yahoo! for revealing user information to the Chinese government, this time in a U.S. court:

A suit filed in federal court in San Francisco on Wednesday by the wife of Wang Xiaoning accuses Yahoo of “aiding and abetting” torture and human rights violations by linking her husband and others to e-mail and online comments.

— Yahoo sued in US court for giving user data to China, Sydney Morning Herald, April 20, 2007

The previous suit noted that Yahoo! operates as a Hong Kong company, so it’s not clear whether it actually had to go by mainland Chinese rules instead of Hong Kong ones. Continue reading →