This is why I use email from a company which is not required to report to any govt. agency.
On 10/6/16, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 6, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Jane Plunkett <[email protected]> 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. > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
