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Exclusive: Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for NSA | Reuters

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Feed Name: Security Ledger

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2016-10-04

Date Updated: 2026-05-05

Author: Paul Roberts

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Reuters reported that Yahoo created a secret program to scan hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts for terms specified by U.S. intelligence (the NSA), a form of bulk surveillance carried out at the government's request; the report is based on former employees and other sources and highlights concerns about the extent of cooperation between large tech firms and government surveillance demands.

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