Incoming Yahoo emails last year were scanned by the company’s custom built software program designed to search for information for U.S. security officials, according to a story by Reuters. Incoming ...

This article first appeared on the Cato Institute site. Reuters dropped a bombshell story on Tuesday, reporting that in 2015 Yahoo agreed to scan all its users' incoming emails on behalf of a U.S.

NEW YORK (AP) — Yahoo’s reported willingness to search user email to assist U.S. government investigators has revived concerns about court-approved surveillance programs that companies aren’t allowed ...

What Yahoo was looking for with its alleged email scanning program may have been signs of code used by a foreign terrorist group. The company was searching for a digital “signature” of a communication ...

Travel data aggregator Traxo will begin piloting with an undisclosed client an automatic email inbox scanning capability that searches for travel confirmation emails, senior vice president of sales ...

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Oath, a unit of Verizon that owns Yahoo and AOL Mail, continues to offer a service to advertisers that analyzes more than 200 million email inboxes looking for user data about products that users ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Yahoo’s reported agreement to assist U.S. investigators by searching all email sent to hundreds of millions of accounts has stoked fresh concerns about mass government surveillance – ...