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from the that's-the-polite-form-of-the-response dept.
Since word spread that Yahoo! backdoored its own email servers for US intelligence services, we've heard from rival webmail providers denying they have put in place similar arrangements.
That Yahoo! has a cosy relationship with the Feds is not surprising, especially given what we know about PRISM and Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. What is bizarre is that Yahoo!'s engineering team did not, it is claimed, involve its internal security team and introduced exploitable vulnerabilities into the email scanning system.
There's also the issue that this blanket surveillance, as reported, potentially scoops up private and personal communications of millions of innocent people.
We asked Google if it created a similar mechanism in which g-men can search all incoming messages for certain keywords, or if it has been asked to. A spokesman told us:
We've never received such a request, but if we did, our response would be simple: 'No way.'
Previously:
Yahoo "Secretly Scanned Emails for US Authorities"
US Government Threatened Yahoo with $250K Daily Fine if it didn't use PRISM
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 07 2016, @11:54AM
Don't forget Acxiom [acxiom.com]. They aggregate all those other data sets Google doesn't have access to, like your offline purchases, your medical history, etc. The corporate HQ is in Little Rock, Arkansas. Their CEO is good pals with the Clintons; they have a little game where they try to spy each other on the telescopes they have at the little penthouses on top of their respective buildings, the Acxiom HQ and the Clinton Presidential Library.
Washington DC delenda est.