http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/04/google-and-microsoft-say-emai l-services-are-spy-free-following-yahoo-report.html Google and Microsoft say email services are spy-free following Yahoo report
Harriet Taylor <http:///harriet-taylor/> | @Harri8t <http://twitter.com/Harri8t> •1 Hour Ago [image: Description: Attendees working on Apple Inc. laptop computers participate in the Yahoo! Inc. Mobile Developer Conference Hackathon in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015.] Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Attendees working on Apple Inc. laptop computers participate in the Yahoo! Inc. Mobile Developer Conference Hackathon in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. Microsoft <http://msft> and Google <http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/GOOGL> want to make it clear that their email services, Outlook, Hotmail and Gmail, are safe from U.S. government spies. The two companies issued the following statements to CNBC, following a Reuters report revealing that Internet giant Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence officials <http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-nsa-exclusive-idUSKCN1241YT>, according to reporter Joseph Menn's sources. "We have never engaged in the secret scanning of email traffic like what has been reported today about Yahoo <http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/YHOO>." — a Microsoft spokesperson said in an emailed response to CNBC. A spokesperson from Alphabet's Google's issued this statement to CNBC: "We've never received such a request, but if we did, our response would be simple: 'no way'." According to Reuters, citing two former employees and a third person with knowledge of the events, Yahoo scanned hundreds of millions of email accounts at the bidding of the National Security Agency or FBI, in order to comply with a classified U.S. government directive. The company also reportedly built a software custom tool to monitor all of its users incoming emails for certain information specified by U.S. intelligence agents, according to Reuters sources. Yahoo, which is in the middle of a sale to Verizon <http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/VZ>, has said it did nothing wrong — the company issued this statement to CNBC: "Yahoo is a law abiding company, and complies with the laws of the United States." Verizon declined to comment to CNBC. *Play Video* [image: Description: Yahoo scanned hundreds of millions of accounts - RTRS] ------------------------------ ------------------------------ [image: Avast logo] <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> __._,_.___ ------------------------------ Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected]> ------------------------------ Visit Your Group <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmOWlqbHQ2BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NzU2NzMxMzM-> [image: Yahoo! Groups] <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJlbzc5dXBoBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTQ3NTY3MzEzNA--> • Privacy <https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html> • Unsubscribe <[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe> • Terms of Use <https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/> __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
