Yahoo secretly scanned emails for the NSA and FBI -- Apple, Google and Microsoft did not

Yahoo has been having something of a rough time of late, and things are not getting any easier. It has emerged that the company created a custom tool to search customers' emails for specific terms as directed by the NSA and FBI. Reuters shares the story of two former Yahoo employees who say the company complied with a government directive to search through all incoming emails. In response to the revelations, Apple, Google and Microsoft have all denied engaging in similar activity. The explosive news is being described as the first instance of a US company agreeing to scan and… [Continue Reading]