Yahoo! Inc.is contesting a reportthat claimed the company developed a software program to scan Yahoo Mailaccounts for U.S. intelligence, Bloomberg News reported Oct. 5.
The company reportedly called the Reuters report "misleading" ina statement, adding, "We narrowly interpret every government request foruser data to minimize disclosure. The mail scanning described in the articledoes not exist on our systems."
Yahoo reportedly built a custom software program whichsearched all incoming emails for the FBI or NSA.
Other tech giants distancedthemselves from the company's email search. All of them said that they did notreceive any such surveillance request from the U.S. government, and even ifthey did, they would have challenged the requests in court.
Recently, Yahoo carried out an investigation whichconfirmed that datalinked with at least 500 million user accounts was stolen from its network inlate 2014 by what it termed a "state-sponsored actor."