Week 31:- Story 61 'Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for the US government'

'Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for the US government'

http://news.sky.com/story/yahoo-secretly-scanned-customer-emails-for-the-us-government-10605967

Yahoo searched hundreds of millions of emails to help a US intelligence agency

• The security team found a flaw with the software and thought hackers had created it; it was said that hackers could have accessed any flagged up emails 
• it isn't clear if Yahoo handed over any information to the intelligence agency 
• Google said, "We've never received such a request, but if we did, our response would be simple: 'No way'."

There are positive and negative problems with companies being able to scan personal emails as this does essentially invade ones privacy and therefore the question of ethics is to be considered; however in the case of preventing terror attacks, new digital media is able to potentially protect the people and aid the government to track down any abnormal behaviour.