Yahoo created its transparency report for the first half of 2015, which indicated an increase in the number of requests made by the U.S. government for user data.
On the heels of reports that the White House was swaying toward supporting encryption and strongly disavowing legislation that would force companies to unlock customer smartphones and apps when presented with a court order, a working group in the Obama administration had mulled ways that encrypted communications could be unlocked.
A former Morgan Stanley financial adviser who was fired for stealing the data of approximately 730,000 clients pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday.
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