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Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for US 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. The company complied with a classified U.S. government directive, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said two former employees and a third person apprised of the events.
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Is this a surprise? Someone from the NSA shows up with a bag of cash in one hand and an NSL in the other and asks "Which way do you want to play this?"