Report Says Yahoo Scanned Emails(翻译)

It has not been a good month for the American Internet company Yahoo.
这个月对于美国互联网公司雅虎来说可过得并不顺利。

In late September, Yahoo announced that everyone who uses its email service should change his or her password.The company said up to 500 million email accounts had been hacked.
九月底，雅虎宣称，使用雅虎电子邮件的人需要更改邮箱密码。公司称，近5亿邮箱账户被非法入侵。

This week, the news agency Reuters reported that the company built an app that could scan emails.It said Yahoo gave the app to a United States intelligence agency.
本周，路透社报道称，公司开发了能够扫描邮件的手机软件（app）。路透社表示，雅虎将此款app给了美国情报局。

People are reacting to the latest news on Facebook and Twitter.
人们在脸书和推特上对最新的新闻做出了回应。

One Facebook user said: “If you were using Yahoo for anything, just stop, now!”
一位脸书用户写道：“如果你因为任何事情而使用雅虎，赶快停止，现在！”

Three former Yahoo employees told Reuters that the company had obeyed a demand from the U.S. government.They said it agreed to look at messages sent to hundreds of millions of email accounts.
三名雅虎前雇员告知路透社，公司曾服从美国政府机构的要求。他们称，公司同意扫描数以亿计的邮箱账户信息。

Security experts say it is the first known time a U.S. Internet company agreed to view incoming messages instead of stored messages.The sources said they do not know exactly what intelligence agents were searching for.
安全专家表示，这是他们第一次知道美国互联网公司同意监视收入信息而非存储信息。知情人士透露，他们并不清楚情报员在寻找什么。

Other Internet companies including Apple, Google, Twitter and Facebook said they never received a similar request.They also said they would not agree to such a demand.
其它包括苹果、谷歌、推特和脸书在内的互联网公司称，他们没有收到过类似请求。他们还表示，他们永远不会同意这种要求。

On Wednesday, Yahoo called the Reuters story “misleading.”
周三，雅虎称路透社的新闻“具有误导性”。

In a statement provided to journalists, the company said “the mail scanning described in the article does not exist on our systems.”
公司在对新闻记者的声明中表示，“我们公司不存在路透社文章中所描述的邮件扫描行为。”

But many social media users continue to criticize Yahoo for its reported action.
然而，许多社交媒体用户继续指责雅虎公司的报道。

That includes Edward Snowden, who wrote “They secretly scanned everything you ever wrote, far beyond what law requires, close your account today.”
其中爱德华·斯诺登写道，“他们秘密扫描你写的一切内容，与法律要求背道而驰。今天就关闭你的账户吧。”

And that’s What’s Trending Today.
以上是今日新鲜事。

I’m Dorothy Gundy.
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