On Oct 6, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Jane Plunkett <janeplunk...@win.net> wrote:
> I canceled my Yahoo Acct. > > Yahoo secretly scanned emails of all users for NSA and the FBI > > http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/5/headlines/report_yahoo_secretly_scanned_emails_of_all_users_for_nsa_fbi You can’t escape by merely cancelling an account. This is just another aspect of the FISA laws about which Edward Snowden made so many revelations. According to Reuters: A Yahoo operation in 2015 to scan the incoming email of its customers for specific information requested by the U.S. government was authorized under a foreign intelligence law, parts of which will expire next year, two U.S. government officials familiar with the matter said. The collection in question was specifically authorized by a warrant issued by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, said the two government sources, who requested anonymity to speak freely. Yahoo's request came under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the sources said. The two sources said the request was issued under a provision of the law known as Section 702, which will expire on Dec. 31, 2017, unless lawmakers act to renew it. The FISA Court warrant related specifically to Yahoo, but it is possible similar such orders have been issued to other telecom and internet companies, the sources said. Section 702 of the FISA governs a program exposed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden known as Prism, which gathers messaging data from Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook Inc, Microsoft Corp, Apple Inc and other major tech companies that involves a foreign target under surveillance. Another type of spying the authority allowed under Section 702 is known as "upstream," and allows the NSA to copy web traffic flowing along the internet backbone located inside the United States and search for certain terms associated with a target.
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