Yahoo secretly built software in 2015 that let it search the incoming emails of its hundreds of millions of users on behalf of the U.S. government, Reuters reported Tuesday. The tech titan's previously unreported use of custom software to eavesdrop on its users was done without the knowledge of its chief security officer and despite the wishes of several senior executives, two former employees told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Rather, CEO Marissa Mayer secretly conceded to a surveillance order issued by U.S. intelligence officials and directed Yahoo's engineers to build an application that searched all its users' arriving messages for an unspecified string of characters, according to Reuters.
Wouldn't expect any less from the CEO who spent an ungodly amount of money buying tumblr... Of course she would let people get spied on