Sam Biddle, writing for The Intercept:
After Tuesday’s revelatory story by Reuters’ Joseph Menn that exposed an apparent vast, secret, government-ordered email surveillance program at Yahoo, the company has issued a brief statement through Joele Frank, a public relations firm.
Here’s a link to the Reuters article in question.
Yahoo’s email statement, via Jacob Silber of the Joele Frank communications firm:
Good morning –
We are reaching out on behalf of Yahoo regarding yesterday’s Reuters article. Yahoo said in a statement:
“The article is misleading. We narrowly interpret every government request for user data to minimize disclosure. The mail scanning described in the article does not exist on our systems.”
Best,
The Joele Frank Team
Sam Biddle:
This is an extremely carefully worded statement, arriving roughly 20 hours after the Reuters story first broke. That’s a long time to craft 29 words.
And:
It would mean a lot more for this denial to come straight from the keyboard of a named executive at Yahoo—perhaps Ron Bell, the company’s general counsel—rather than a “strategic communications firm.”
This feels like a disaster for Yahoo.
Marissa Meyer will need to move on to the VC world or just retire. She’s done. She’s poisoned goods for any tech company after this. Compare her “leadership” to Tim Cook’s actual leadership.
That said, the only thing the gov. would learn from my Yahoo emails is how much I suck at fantasy football.
It seems to be a terribly convenient time for this kind of thing to come out and reduce Yahoo’s stock value to that of a penny stock. Right when Verizon is bidding to purchase them. Nope no coincidence at all.
If she’s a republican she might be able to run for President in the future.
To be fair, it takes time to find out if something exist or not.
FBI: “Hey. Yahoo. We need to data mine your users’ email.”
Yahoo: “No prob. We already scan the shit of of people’s email.”
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