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[ParanoidTimes] A scandal that reveals more than it says: Yahoo Scanned All Users’ Mail for the Government






From: "Dave Lindorff" <dlindorff@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 5:13:23 AM
Subject: A scandal that reveals more than it says: Yahoo Scanned All Users' Mail for the Government




A scandal that reveals more than it says:

Yahoo Scanned All Users' Mail for the Government

 

By Alfredo Lopez

 

If you are one of the approximately 280 million people with Yahoo email accounts, your email was scanned for content and possibly turned over to the U.S. government. Yahoo, on Tuesday, admitted that fact.

Reuters revealed on Tuesday [2] that the Internet mega-company (which is now being purchased by Verizon Communications) designed a special program last year to capture and scan all its users' incoming email after being ordered to do that by the either the NSA or FBI. It deployed the program over the last year, scanning every piece of email Yahoo accounts received and apparently turning over all email that contained any of the tens of thousands of "keywords" the NSA considers suspicious.

The decision, Reuters says, was made by President and Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer, in collaboration with people in her legal department. It wasn't without controversy: several Yahoo top staffers left the company including Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos (who left for a top job at Facebook).

The news is startling for several reasons. It's also deceptive for some others...

 

For the rest of this article  please go to: www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/3317


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Previous edition: Resend of Friday's CLG Newsletter - Google and Yahoo Issues
 
Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence - sources | 04 Oct 2016 | | 04 Oct 2016 | 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 directive, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said two former employees and a third person apprised of the events. Some surveillance experts said this represents the first case to surface of a U.S. Internet company agreeing to a spy agency's demand by searching all arriving messages, as opposed to examining stored messages or scanning a small number of accounts in real time.







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