Yahoo must explain how it got a drug trafficker's deleted email
https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/23/yahoo-must-explain-drug-trafficker-deleted-email-recovery/
Were you wondering how Yahoo managed to recover deleted email
that was supposedly impossible to retrieve? You're not the
only one. A judge has partially granted a motion that orders
Yahoo to explain how it recovered deleted email from UK drug
trafficking convict Russell Knaggs. It won't have to detail
more than how it dealt with the email account in question, but
that still means having to say just how it grabbed six months
of message drafts when its own policies suggest this should
have been impossible. The company has to provide both
documents and a relevant witness by August 31st. For its
part, Yahoo has maintained that it scooped up auto-saved
drafts using a "proprietary tool," and denies the defense's
claims that it had to have had access to government
surveillance to collect the information. At the same time,
some of Yahoo's own staffers allegedly contradicted each other
with their earlier explanations of what happened. It may need
a formal, thorough explanation if it doesn't want to maintain
doubt and raise Knaggs' hopes for an appeal.
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