Yahoo says claims of sweeping surveillance 'categorically false'

Yahoo, one of ten companies mentioned in a leaked document about NSA and FBI surveillance, has echoed Facebook, Google, and others in denying that it provides broad access to user data. In a blog post intended to "set the record straight," Yahoo general counsel Ron Bell said that claims about Yahoo allowing the government to snoop through its files are false. "Yahoo! has not joined any program in which we volunteer to share user data with the U.S. government," Bell said. "We do not voluntarily d...