Reported Yahoo email scanning revives surveillance concerns
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October 6, 2016
NEW YORK (AP, Oct. 5, 2016) — Yahoo's reported agreement to assist U.S. investigators by searching all email sent to hundreds of millions of accounts has stoked fresh concerns about mass government surveillance — not to mention questions over just how much privacy tech companies owe their users.
Reports from Reuters and the Washington Post said that last year, Yahoo began scanning all incoming mail for a string of letters, numbers or other characters, and provided the messages that match to federal intelligence or law enforcement agencies. Yahoo didn't deny the initial Reuters report on Tuesda...
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