Overheard in the tech blogosphere

Dec 20 2007   9:13PM GMT

Who’s sorry now? Michael Callahan



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Technology, apology
michael_callahan.gif Michael Callahan, executive vice president and general counsel at Yahoo, apologized for failing to inform the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the circumstances under which Yahoo gave the Chinese government information about one of its users.

The user happened to be Chinese journalist Shi Tao.

Tao was later sentenced to 10 years in prison for divulging state secrets.

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