- Yahoo (YHOO +0.5%) has responded more fully to a report that it cooperated with government intelligence officials in scanning incoming customer e-mail, calling that report "misleading."
- A terse statement released in the wake of the report -- which said Yahoo built a software program to perform character searches on all incoming mail -- said only that Yahoo was a law-abiding company and it complied with U.S. laws.
- "We narrowly interpret every government request for user data to minimize disclosure," the company is saying a new statement. "The mail scanning described in the article does not exist on our systems."
- Yesterday, Microsoft and Google (operators of major mail services Hotmail, Outlook and Gmail) said they didn't engage in scanning of mail traffic as in the Yahoo report.