Yahoo will give millions to a settlement fund for Chinese dissidents, decades after exposing user data

Yahoo will give millions to a settlement fund for Chinese dissidents, decades after exposing user data

A lawsuit to hold Yahoo responsible for “willfully turning a blind eye” to the mismanagement of a human rights fund for Chinese dissidents was settled for $5.425 million last week, after an eight-year court battle. At least $3 million will go toward a new fund; settlement documents say it will “provide humanitarian assistance to persons in or from the [People’s Republic of China] who have been imprisoned in the PRC for exercising their freedom o…