Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence - sources

[driftdiver]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-nsa-exclusive/exclusive-yahoo-secretly-scanned-customer-emails-for-u-s-intelligence-sources-idUSKCN1241YT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.

The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said three former employees and a fourth person apprised of the events.

Some surveillance experts said this represents the first case to surface of a U.S. Internet company agreeing to an intelligence agency’s request by searching all arriving messages, as opposed to examining stored messages or scanning a small number of accounts in real time.

[WingNot]

Hell the Russians, the Chinese and probably the Norks beat the feds too it.   ANyone who still has a Yahoo email account is past stupid. 

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Hell the Russians, the Chinese and probably the Norks beat the feds too it.   ANyone who still has a Yahoo email account is past stupid.

Gmail is even worse. Google, both in searches and email, works directly with the Federal Government.