Reuters reported this week that Yahoo “secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials.” Reuters says that the government sent Yahoo a classified request to search the email accounts, likely under the authority of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The scope of the surveillance is unprecedented and involved “hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts.” The revelation comes just a month after the company announced that state-sponsored hackers stole information from 500 million Yahoo accounts in 2014. Change those passwords and keep reading for more news. Charlotte. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department released full-length dash and body camera footage of the Keith Lamont Scott shooting this week, according to the Charlotte Observer. A separate report from the Observer says that the police department has asked the Police Foundation, an organization with the stated mission of advancing policing through innovation and science, to review the department’s policies and procedures. CMPD Chief Kerr Putney announced his commitment to developing a consistent and transparent process for releasing video footage in the future. DWI Murder Trial. As WRAL reports, trial is underway in Hillsborough for Chandler Michael Kania, the former UNC student charged with second-degree murder for driving the wrong way on I-85 while drunk and causing a crash that killed three people and seriously injured another. The News & Observer reports that one juror has been dismissed after falling asleep for nearly half an hour during the trial; the juror was [...]
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