Yahoo last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by US intelligence officials, sources have told Reuters. “It sounds like they are scanning all emails, even inside the US … the fourth amendment protects that fully. Due to a programming flaw, he told them, hackers could have accessed the stored emails. It is public record that this expansive surveillance program is the basis for warrantless searches of Americans’ emails, and that the government has never even counted how many. Yahoo in 2007 fought a Fisa demand that it conduct searches on specific email accounts without a court-approved warrant.

Source: The Guardian October 04, 2016 17:46 UTC