If you have a Yahoo Mail account, Yahoo has been scanning all of your emails to help U.S. intelligence agencies. At least according to Reuters. After receiving a “classified directive,” Yahoo built custom software to scan all of its email traffic for the NSA and/or FBI. Reuters claims the governmental agencies were looking for a specific string of characters. Yahoo chose to comply with the order to search for this string of characters. And, as a result, scanned millions of emails, all without users’ knowledge or approval. Use @Yahoo? They secretly scanned everything you ever wrote, far beyond what law...
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