Yahoo! At the request of the American special services, she followed all the coming of the Internet users

Employees of the American company Yahoo! Last year, at the request of the US intelligence services, they created software for the analysis and processing of all incoming letters from Internet users of their postal service. According to Reuters, which refers to sources familiar with the situation, this was done to help American intelligence.

According to journalists, the head of Yahoo! Marissa Mayer received a request in the form of a secret directive either from the National Security Agency (ANB) or the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and entrusted the developers of the mail service Yahoo !!! Create an appropriate program.

At the same time, Mayer did not inform the company's information security service, which, after a few weeks of the program, discovered it and took it for the actions of hackers. Having learned that the creation of the program was authorized by the head of the company, the head of the service, Alex Stamos resigned, the agency notes.

It is reported that the program was intended for screening in real time of all incoming letters containing a certain combination of characters. Whether she handed Yahoo! Special services any information and whether other postal services received the same request, the agency could not be found out.

Sources of journalists said that this is the first case in history, when the Internet company agreed to monitor users, searching for all incoming messages in contrast to checking saved messages and scanning a small number of accounts in real time.

Representative of Yahoo! In response to the request of journalists about the comment, he emphasized that the company "is law -abiding, acting in accordance with the directives of the United States of America." The Agency was advised to contact the National Intelligence Director, who, in turn, refused to comment.

Edward Snowden, a former NSA employee who revealed the scale of the electronic surveillance program of the American agency, called on to get rid of Yahoo accounts on his Twitter account . He also called for commenting on representatives of other technological giants and US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.