![]() The NSA also collected data from Google, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo, and other various communication channels through its Prism and Upstream program. Remember that in 2013 the NSA had hacked Yahoo and Google data centers to access millions of user accounts, (according to Edward Snowden). “Yahoo is a law-abiding company, and complies with the laws of the United States.” ![]() When Reuters contacted Yahoo for a statement the company said: It should not worry our readers less that he subsequently started working for Facebook. It was due to Mayer’s decision that Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos left the company in 2015. “Releasing classified information is treason. Mayer has been a critic of the NSA and its spying techniques, in fact, in 2011 she said: The two former Yahoo employees told Reuters that the company’s Chief Executive Marissa Mayer made the decision to follow the orders and allow the intelligence officials access to user emails. We believe it can be attachments or simply the content of emails. It is unclear what exactly they were they looking for. ![]() It was sent to the company’s legal team in which intelligence officials were looking for a set of characters. In the report, Reuters also revealed that the order to search users’ email search came in the form of a classified directive. Yahoo is in the news for all the bad reasons, just a couple weeks ago the company announced it suffered a massive data breach from state-sponsored actors who stole more than 500 million accounts of its users. 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.” “Some surveillance experts said this represents the first case to the surface of a 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.” ![]() Yahoo developed a software to secretly scan its users’ email conversation for the US Intelligence agencies.Īccording to a report from Reuters: “The company complied with a classified U.S. Report: Yahoo, the Internet giant developed a software to secretly scan millions of its users’ email conversations for the NSA meanwhile Yahoo’s CEO provided full cooperation to the agency. ![]()
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