Yahoo Sells All Its Users Private Email Contents to U.S. Agencies

ostro-whiskey

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Yahoo wrote in its objection letter that if its pricing information were disclosed ... would use it ?to ?shame? Yahoo! and other companies ? and to ?shock? their customers.?

Yahoo isn?t happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides to "law enforcement" and spy agencies has leaked onto the web.

After earlier reports this week that Yahoo had blocked an FOIA Freedom of Information release of its "law enforcement and intelligence price list", someone helpfully provided a copy of the Yahoo company?s spying guide to the whistleblower web site Cryptome.org.

The 17-page guide, which Yahoo has tried to suppress via legal letters to the Cryptome.org site run by freedom of information champion John Young [No relation to Mr.Young of EAU. -- Ed], describes Yahoo?s policies on keeping the data of Yahoo Email and Yahoo Groups users, as well as the surveillance and spying capabilities it can give to the U.S. government and its agencies.

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RatRace123

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I'm not sure I understood that, has Yahoo been revealing the content in people's emails? If so, that is a greivous breach of personal privacy!
 

llafnwod

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Oh, this is just delicious. Luckily there are still enough weirdos around that we can all pretty much blend in with each other.
 

FluffyNeurosis

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Meh, I'm not too worried about any sort of "big brother" stuff. Mostly because whenever I deal with the government and they ask me for personal information its stuff I thought they already knew or information even I have a hard time finding. *gasp* I hope they dont find my porn!
 

Booze Zombie

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Good thing I don't live in the U.S, though I doubt that stopped anyone from shifting through my personal emails.
 

Flos

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Gee. I hope they've at least caught some pedophiles or turristz or something. I don't think anyone has anything to worry about unless you're doing grossly illegal things that stand out.

[sub]Wait, wasn't Sarah Palin's Yahoo easily broken into, or was that hotmail?[/sub]
 

Berethond

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The CIA can have fun reading through my 2000 messages, then. I'm going to stop deleting emails on purpose so that they have more workload, and I'll work the key words that their filters search for in them too, but I'll be sneaky so they think it's some kind of code.

Then, when they breach my privacy too far, I'll sue the government.
It's a great plan.
 

llafnwod

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FluffyNeurosis said:
Meh, I'm not too worried about any sort of "big brother" stuff. Mostly because whenever I deal with the government and they ask me for personal information its stuff I thought they already knew or information even I have a hard time finding. *gasp* I hope they dont find my porn!
Bureaucratic incompetence is not universal. There are intelligent people working for the government. Unfortunately, a lot of them are jerks.
 

Booze Zombie

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Flos said:
Gee. I hope they've at least caught some pedophiles or turristz or something. I don't think anyone has anything to worry about unless you're doing grossly illegal things that stand out.

[sub]Wait, wasn't Sarah Palin's Yahoo easily broken into, or was that hotmail?[/sub]
How exactly do you think pedophiles go about their business?
I doubt they're that easy to catch.

"Dear pre-teen, please let me visit you and do unmentionable things, p.s here's my address if you ever feel 'alone'."

Granted, I imagine one or two idiots have actually done that, but they're so stupid they probably couldn't sexually assault a pumpkin.
 

Flos

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Booze Zombie said:
Flos said:
Gee. I hope they've at least caught some pedophiles or turristz or something. I don't think anyone has anything to worry about unless you're doing grossly illegal things that stand out.

[sub]Wait, wasn't Sarah Palin's Yahoo easily broken into, or was that hotmail?[/sub]
How exactly do you think pedophiles go about their business?
I doubt they're that easy to catch.

"Dear pre-teen, please let me visit you and do unmentionable things, p.s here's my address if you ever feel 'alone'."

Granted, I imagine one or two idiots have actually done that, but they're so stupid they probably couldn't sexually assault a pumpkin.
No, no. I meant people trading porn of kids, not those half-assed pre/teen-chasing pervs. I imagine they'd have to trade things some way, and they can't all be super secret about it.
 

Sharky200

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Well its not like i have a plot to take over the world <_<

but i feel like making a list of all the words they look for and send it on an Email.
and when they look they will find a PS at teh bottom saying

Dear CIA agent(s)
I know you are reading my stuff. If you want to just be friends you can answer the Email i was bored and i thought having a CIA agent to talk to would be fun.
you can't get mad at he its your fault for looking at my personal stuff so yeah.