Yahoo secretly scanned users’ emails for US intelligence agencies

A report says the US Internet giant Yahoo scanned hundreds of millions of users' emails in 2015 at the request of US intelligence agencies.

According to the report published by Reuters on Tuesday, the company secretly built a custom software program last year to search all users’ incoming emails for specific information requested by US intelligence officials.

Several former employees of the Internet company said the scanning of Yahoo Mail accounts was at the behest of the National Security Agency (NSA) or the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

“The request to search Yahoo Mail accounts came in the form of a classified edict sent to the company's legal team,” they noted.

The company did not reject the report and without providing any further details, said, "Yahoo is a law abiding company, and complies with the laws of the United States." Full story...

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