Magistrate Judge Maria-Elena James has requested Yahoo explain how it accessed emails that were thought to be deleted for use in a case against a U.K. drug trafficker, Threatpost reports. The plaintiff “claims Yahoo circumvented British law and included four ‘snapshots’ of content from the email account,” as he never actually sent an email through the service, the report states. While “Yahoo claims the ‘snapshots’ were files created by the company as part of its email autosave feature, which keeps versions of email drafts on its email server for ‘periodic intervals,’” the attorney maintains that Yahoo broke British surveillance law. Yahoo must respond to the court order by Aug. 31.
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