Yahoo today announced plans to beef up security across all its products. As such, the company is making three promises:
- Encrypt all information that moves between its data centers by the end of Q1 2014.
- Offer users an option to encrypt all data flow to/from Yahoo by the end of Q1 2014.
- Work closely with its international Mail partners to ensure that Yahoo co-branded Mail accounts are https-enabled.
At the same time, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer reiterated the company “has never given access to our data centers to the NSA or to any other government agency. Ever.”
➤ Our Commitment to Protecting Your Information
See also – Yahoo Mail users quietly given HTTPS security option following pressure from privacy advocates and Google reportedly speeding up its encryption program to better protect user data from the NSA
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