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Old 5 Oct 2016, 05:28 AM   #10
kaptitsky
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Yahoo Agreed to Privacy Break

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ya...-idUSKCN1241YT

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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.
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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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