The headquarters of Yahoo Inc. is pictured in Sunnyvale, California, May 5, 2008. Credit: Reuters/Robert Galbraith
Yahoo To Add Encryption To All Services In Wake Of NSA Spying Revelations -- The Guardian
CEO Marissa Mayer moves to calm privacy fears after reports US spy agency gained access to Google and Yahoo data centres
Yahoo will add encryption to all its products by spring 2014, chief Marissa Mayer has announced, in a bid to tackle users’ privacy fears in the wake of reports that the National Security Agency had accessed the tech firm's data centres.
In a blogpost on Monday, Mayer said: “We’ve worked hard over the years to earn our users’ trust and we fight hard to preserve it. As you know, there have been a number of reports over the last six months about the US government secretly accessing user data without the knowledge of tech companies, including Yahoo.
“I want to reiterate what we have said in the past: Yahoo has never given access to our data centers to the NSA or to any other government agency. Ever. There is nothing more important to us than protecting our users’ privacy.”
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