Yahoo Scanned All ' Incoming Emails For Of US Intelligence

Reuters: Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence - sources

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 demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said three former employees and a fourth person apprised of the events.

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Update: Another lie from President Obama? .... Barack Obama: NSA is not rifling through ordinary people's emails (The Guardian).