The company Yahoo Inc made a program to search for specific information in the emails that they received the users.
The company complied with an order of the Government of the united States and reviewed hundreds of million accounts of Yahoo Mail at the request of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) , reported four sources, three of them former employees.
it Is unknown what type of information sought by the FBI and the NSA but sources reported that they asked Yahoo to review a group of characters. That could mean either a sentence or an attached file, explained.
Experts have ensured that this is the first case known of a u.s.-based company of the Internet that creates a software to please a spy agency, and agrees to review all the messages received by the users in place of examine that they are saved, or explore a small number of accounts in real-time.
The ex-employees said that the decision of Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, obeyed the directive of senior executives headed by the director of the Department of Information Security, Alex Stamos, who now holds the highest rank as the head of Security at Facebook.
Sources reported that the order to track the accounts of Yahoo Mail came in the form of directors and was sent to the legal team of the company.
In context
The law of the united States, including the amendments of 2008 to the Law on Surveillance of Foreign Intelligence, allows intelligence agencies to apply to the phone companies and the Internet that gives them permission for them to snoop around in the data of the users, especially foreigners, with the excuse of preventing terrorist attacks.
Google of Alphabet Inc, and Microsoft Corp., major providers of email services in EE. UU., they said they have never reviewed the emails of its users, and said receiving the request to do so would respond, “no way”.
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