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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