Yahoo’s program may have been spying on hundreds of millions of users’ accounts
The Yahoo sign in front of the company’s campus in Sunnyvale, Calif.
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Reports of a secret Yahoo program to search through customers’ incoming emails has spurred other tech companies to deny ever receiving a similar request from the U.S. government.
The program, reportedly created last year through a classified U.S. order, involves Yahoo searching through hundreds of millions of user accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI.
