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US Still Dodging Questions On Yahoo! Spying

Topic
Surveillance Civil liberties Law Privacy
Country/Region
USA

27 October 2016

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"Four weeks on, the world still does not know exactly what legal basis the US government used to obtain a secret court order requiring Yahoo! to scan all of its users’ incoming e-mails for a string of characters the government said was associated with a terrorist group. While sources have suggested that the court issued its order under a certain provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the government has refused to confirm this publicly. Additionally – despite a plea from Yahoo! – the government has so far refused to declassify the order, a stance it reiterated to Reuters this week.

This silence cannot be squared with the human rights laws that are binding upon the United States."

See: US Still Dodging Questions On Yahoo! Spying (HRW, link)

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