Yahoo email surveillance: who approved the secret scanning program?
by Sam Thielman from Technology | The Guardian on (#1X69E)
Neither the tech company nor the government will say who greenlighted custom program to scan users' emails, but secret Fisa court and FBI are possibilities
By what legal authority do the National Security Agency and the FBI ask Yahoo to search its users' emails? Neither the government nor the tech company would say, after Reuters first reported on Tuesday that Yahoo "secretly built a custom software program" it used on behalf of the NSA and CIA to scan customer emails.
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