Yahoo CEO
Marissa Mayer has revealed in a blog post on the official Yahoo Tumblr page
that the company will extend its high security layer to all its products to
continue to secure information of users from spying eyes and to consolidate
users’ trust.
This
information comes in the wake of revelations that the NSA has been getting
information from users of popular websites like Google, Facebook and Yahoo.
Marissa Mayer took time to indicate in the post that Yahoo had never given
users data to any agency.
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| Marissa Mayer. Img: The Verge |
“Yahoo has
never given access to our data centers to the NSA or to any other government
agency. Ever.” she revealed on the blog post. “There is nothing more important
to us than protecting our users’ privacy.”
She further
revealed that Yahoo will introduce the https (SSL – Secure Sockets Layer)
encryption with a 2048-bit key across Yahoo network by January 8, 2014. All
information that moves between Yahoo’s data centres will be encrypted by the
end of the first quarter of 2014.
Yahoo will
also offer users an option to encrypt all data flow from Yahoo to their
computers and vice versa.
Google has
introduced this layer of security recently after revelations from Edward
Snowden showed Google users’ data being compromised by the NSA.
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