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Old 5 Oct 2016, 11:16 PM   #1
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REUTERS: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence

"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."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ya...-idUSKCN1241YT
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Old 6 Oct 2016, 12:52 AM   #2
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And this article in the Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ence-officials
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Old 6 Oct 2016, 03:10 AM   #3
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Yahoo says email scanning report is 'misleading'

Yahoo says email scanning report is 'misleading' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37568106
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Old 8 Oct 2016, 07:52 PM   #4
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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."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ya...-idUSKCN1241YT
All the more reason to use client side PGP and private email servers from a dedicated email host who values privacy
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Old 9 Oct 2016, 06:32 AM   #5
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The problem with using client side PGP is that for the most part, no one uses it.
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