{"id":181656,"date":"2016-10-05T17:46:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T15:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=181656"},"modified":"2016-10-05T17:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T15:49:00","slug":"mail-spying-software-report-is-misleading-yahoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/181656-mail-spying-software-report-is-misleading-yahoo.html","title":{"rendered":"Mail-spying software report is misleading: Yahoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo has said a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/181534-secret-yahoo-software-spied-on-emails.html\">Reuters article<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0describing a software system that searches\u00a0through its users&#8217; emails for US intelligence agencies is misleading.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the searches were conducted based on information that US intelligence officials supplied.<\/p>\n<p>It cited\u00a0former employees as saying that Yahoo was complying with a classified demand from the US government to scan hundreds of millions of Yahoo accounts on behalf of the NSA and FBI.<\/p>\n<p>However, the IDG\u00a0News Service <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3128128\/yahoo-calls-report-of-secret-email-scanning-misleading.html\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a><\/strong> that Yahoo disputed the Reuters article.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We narrowly interpret every government request for user data to minimise disclosure. The mail scanning described in the article does not exist on our systems,&#8221;\u00a0said Yahoo.<\/p>\n<p>Google,\u00a0Apple, Facebook, and Twitter said they have not received a similar request from the US government, and if they did they would not comply with it, according to the report.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Yahoo and email<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/181534-secret-yahoo-software-spied-on-emails.html\"><strong>Secret Yahoo software spied on emails<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/180632-the-fbi-can-read-all-your-email-and-youll-never-know.html\"><strong>The FBI can read all your email, and you\u2019ll never know<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/180596-hackers-steal-personal-data-from-500-million-yahoo-accounts.html\"><strong>Hackers steal personal data from 500 million Yahoo accounts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo has disputed a Reuters report stating that it built software to help the US government scan through its users&#8217; emails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":86761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,605,161,39184,167,23215,405,2744],"class_list":["post-181656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-facebook","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation-fbi","tag-google","tag-national-security-agency-nsa","tag-twitter","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181674,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181656\/revisions\/181674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}