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31.10.2005

Y!HK won't spill beans to mainland authorities

Agency Green sent us a bilingual press release, the English-language part said:

Yahoo! Hong Kong Statement

18 October 2005

As a company operating in the jurisdiction of the Hong Kong Special Administration Region, Yahoo! Hong Kong adheres to all applicable local laws and regulations in Hong Kong and our privacy policy. The Chinese authorities have never contacted Yahoo! Hong Kong to request any of its user information. Yahoo! Hong Kong and Yahoo! China are managed and operated separately and independently of one another. As such, Yahoo! Hong Kong and Yahoo! China have never exchanged or revealed respective user information to one another.