Thanks, Lee. We have always known that whatever is posted on the
Internet will never be kept confidential. Yahoo alone said something to
the effect that even though you cancel your account, your information
stays up for at least several months to several years longer.
Jane
On 10/6/16 10:44 AM, Lee Larson wrote:
On Oct 6, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Jane Plunkett <[email protected]
<mailto:[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.
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