Yahoo Inc. complied with a request last year from the U.S. government to search all users' incoming email for specific terms. The company created a software program that would seek out specific characters within emails and attachments and store them so they could be delivered to either the National Security Agency of the FBI; it is unclear which agency made the request. Two former
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