Heated topic: The act of the US Government scanning users' Yahoo e-mails rekindled a long-running debate in the United States over the proper balance between digital privacy and national security.
WASHINGTON: A Yahoo operation in 2015 to scan the incoming e-mail of its customers for specific information requested by the US government was authorised under a foreign intelligence law, parts of which will expire next year, two US government officials familiar with the matter said.
Reuters on Tuesday reported that the Yahoo programme was in response to a classified US government request to scan e-mails belonging to hundreds of millions of Yahoo users.
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