Yahoo Mail logo is displayed on a smartphone's screen in front of a code in this illustration taken in October 6, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
SAN FRANCISCO: An international civil liberties group that has worked with web companies on human rights and surveillance issues is asking Verizon Communications Inc to examine a secret e-mail scanning program run by its acquisition target Yahoo Inc and improve on its user protection record.
Access Now, an international digital rights group, wrote to Verizon on Oct 11 about scanning conducted in 2015 at the behest of US intelligence authorities and first reported by Reuters last week. Federal officials said the search was at the direction of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and sought emails containing a specific set of characters associated with a terror group backed by another government.
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