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Citing recent pact, Europe questions U.S. over Yahoo mail scanning

Published 11/11/2016, 06:28 PM
Citing recent pact, Europe questions U.S. over Yahoo mail scanning
  • The European Commission is questioning the United States about a secret court order linked to reports that Yahoo (YHOO +0.7%) scanned thousands of customer e-mails on behalf of the government.
  • The questions come amid concern that such an order might violate the Privacy Shield agreement reached in August, where the U.S. agreed to limit collection of (and access to) Europeans' data held in the U.S.
  • Now the EC is asking how a Yahoo order would fit with those commitments, and whether such a program is still under way.
  • "The U.S. will be held accountable to these commitments both through review mechanisms and through redress possibilities, including the newly established Ombudsperson mechanism in the U.S. State Department," said EC spokesman Christian Wigand.
  • Late last month, the group of European data-protection authorities known as the Article 29 Working Party cautioned Yahoo over the government access issue, as well as the company's huge 2014 data breach.

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