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‘Shameful’: Yahoo spied on email customers at government’s request

Rights groups said the news proves 'the failure of U.S. government reforms to curb NSA's tendency to try and indiscriminately vacuum up the world's data.'
By Lauren McCauley and Deirdre Fulton
Posted on October 5, 2016 by Lauren McCauley and Deirdre Fulton

In an astounding and “unprecedented” new account of U.S. government surveillance, Reuters reported Tuesday that Yahoo secretly scanned all of its customer’s incoming emails for a specific set of characters, per request of the National Security Agency (NSA) or FBI. Continue reading →