Yahoo is on to something when it scanned the emails of its clients. The breach in user accounts comes to light when Reuters released a narrative that the company created a program that will search for essential elements of information on its database.
In reference to an earlier report that Yahoo forwarded scanned emails to the FBI, the tech company has admitted that what it did is in accordance with an order to hunt down suspected terrorists. An unidentified government official has been cited by the New York Times that the California-based organization is searching for a digital signature of a lawless group that is connected to a foreign government.
Anonymous sources reveal that the discrete directive, which the Justice Department issued to Yahoo, came from a judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court last year. After complying, the tech group sets off to work by modifying its spam filter program. Individual emails have been scanned and forwarded to federal authorities.
Prior to Yahoo's involvement, it has been learned that the tech group's email service is being used by a terrorist group as a means of communication within its network. Some kind of designator or signature is embedded in each conversation.
When the news about Yahoo's participation went public, the organization has responded that the email scanning reported by Reuters contains a lot of loopholes. The search engine organization has a history of getting itself embroiled in controversies. Last month, Yahoo has confirmed that 500 million user accounts were hacked way back in 2014.
In 2007, the company has challenged the government with regards to the NSA's Prism data collection program wherein federal authorities tapped into the systems of top US technology organizations. Although the current issue is highly contentious, security experts believe that the US Administration will continue issuing orders in order to limit if not eliminate terrorist threats especially now that encryptions are embedded in emails and other means of communication.
