SF News Yahoo Secretly Created Spyware To Scan All Incoming Email For Feds At the request of the US government, Yahoo engineers last year secretly built custom software to scan all of its users' incoming email in real time — and then made that data available to
SF News The Feds Threatened To Fine Yahoo $250,000 A Day If It Didn't Hand Over Users' Data Yahoo is talking about its fight against the federal government’s surveillance of Internet users — a battle it ultimately lost in secret court hearings in Washington. The company's general counsel announced today in