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October 4, 2016

Yahoo collaborating with US intelligence agencies

By laura
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04October

Today it was revealed that Yahoo has been scanning people’s email for the federal government. Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning...

May 13, 2010

ISPs may face blocking challenges

By laura
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13May

Eric Goldman wrote an article about a Comcast subscriber suing a number of companies (including Comcast and Microsoft and TRUSTe) for blocking mail. As part of the judge’s decision he rules that the ISPs that blocked the plaintiff’s email are not protected under 47 USC 230(c)(2). the court reaches a decidedly defendant-unfriendly conclusion by rejecting Comcast’s, Cisco’s...

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