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‘Shameful’: Yahoo spied on email customers at government’s request

Rights groups said the news proves 'the failure of U.S. government reforms to curb NSA's tendency to try and indiscriminately vacuum up the world's data.'

In an astounding and “unprecedented” new account of U.S. government surveillance, Reuters reported Tuesday that Yahoo secretly scanned all of its customer’s incoming emails for a specific set of characters, per request of the National Security Agency (NSA) or FBI. Continue reading