Yahoo says Iran claims are false

ZDnet‘s Richard Koman accuses Yahoo of having collaborated with the Iranian regime during the recent post-election protests. Koman says the online giant provided names and emails for some 200,000 Iranian Yahoo users to authorities so that those same authorities would “unban” Yahoo on the state-controlled internet. The blog post does not include a response by Yahoo, but promises “to provide further proof as the story unfolds.” UPDATE: Yahoo denies all of the claims in the ZDnet article: “The allegations in the story are false. Neither Yahoo! nor any Yahoo! representative has met with or communicated with any Iranian officials, and Yahoo! has not disclosed user data to the Iranian government. ”

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This is according to a post on the Iranian Students Solidarity (Farsi) blog. My sources indicate the information comes from a group of resisters who have infiltrated the administration and are leaking out important information. These sources say that Yahoo representatives met with Iranian Internet authorities after Google and Yahoo were shut down during the protests and agreed to provide the names of Yahoo subscribers who also have blogs in exchange for the government lifting the blocks on Yahoo.

Exclusive! Yahoo provided Iran with names of 200,000 users (ZDnet via @rmack)