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October 6, 2016

Officials Confirm Yahoo Secretly Scanned Emails for Gov't Surveillance
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Meanwhile, multiple anonymous government officials have confirmed Yahoo
secretly scanned the contents of hundreds of millions of email accounts
and turned the information over to the NSA or FBI. The Justice
Department obtained a secret FISA, or Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act, court order for the information last year. To comply, Yahoo
redesigned a software program, allowing it to search every user's emails
for a computer "signature" provided by the U.S. government.


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