Yahoo will face a class action lawsuit for allegedly violating users’ privacy by scanning email messages for targeted advertising purposes.
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Yahoo slices your password out of login process, shows off end-to-end encryption
The result of snipping out passwords: one-factor authentication. Just make sure not to lose that phone!
GCHQ and police team up to hunt down child abusers on the darknet
A major crackdown on child-abuse imagery includes a new law making it illegal for an adult to send a sexual communication to a child. 
Yahoo sells Flickr users’ photos without sharing profits
Don’t expect DMCA takedown notices on this one. As image owners are finding out, Creative Commons-licensed images are legal to share – even for commercial purposes. 
3 ways to make your Yahoo Mail account safer
Following on from our detailed guide to securing your webmail, here’s a quick breakdown of how to make the most important fixes, for users of Yahoo Mail.
Facebook and Yahoo team up to block account hijackings via recycled accounts
Facebook and Yahoo have figured out how to undo the mess Yahoo made when it decided to recycle old email addresses. 
US government “threatened” Yahoo with daily $250,000 fines over user data
In the post-Snowden era many web firms came in for criticism over their apparent willingness to bend over for the NSA as the agency went on a massive data grab. Now, however, Yahoo has revealed how much it would have cost the company to disregard government data requests – a cool quarter of a million dollars per day.
We need to talk about email
Today the people of the world will exchange about 250 *billion* messages using a system that has been shockingly insecure for decades: email. That’s why we need to talk about email…
Google and Facebook join forces to take down fake tech support scammers
Web giants Google and Facebook are striking back against tech support scammers who use the companies’ ad networks to snag victims.