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title: "Yahoo fails again"
date: 2016-10-05T15:09:00+06:00
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author: "Olivier Falcoz"
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Get off *Yahoo mail* people - if not already done!

> 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 official, according to people familiar with the matter.
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> 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.
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> -- Joseph Menn in [Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence ](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1241YT), Reuters 