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Privacy Advocates Urge Skype To Disclose Info About Alleged Government Spying Business Insider More than 600 million people use Skype to make voice and video calls and send text and audio messages, and there are indications that governments can gain access to these private communications. Journalists and privacy advocates are urging the ... See all stories on this topic » Business Insider

Microsoft Under Pressure To Cough Up Skype Privacy Reports The Consumerist While you're chitchatting away on Skype with your friend living halfway around the world or maybe showing your new kitchen improvements to your mother by carrying the laptop around, what is Skype doing with your information, and what happens if the ... See all stories on this topic » The Consumerist

Skype adds support for unlinking Microsoft account by yourself LiveSide Skype As we're getting closer to the March 15 date for the discontinuation of the Windows Live Messenger service, Microsoft in encouraging users to migrate to their Skype service by linking their Microsoft and Skype accounts. However, as we have ... See all stories on this topic »

Privacy groups, activists and journalists call on Skype to document its ... Boing Boing 1. Quantitative data regarding the release of Skype user information to third parties, disaggregated by the country of origin of the request, including the number of requests made by governments, the type of data requested, the proportion of requests ... See all stories on this topic » Boing Boing

Letter to Skype: Come Clean on Your Eavesdropping Capabilities and Policies Santa Cruz Sentinel The hope is that Skype will rectify "persistently unclear and confusing" statements about the access it can provide governments for surveillance of Skype conversations and the circumstances under which it does so. I have signed my name to the letter ... See all stories on this topic »

Online Interviews - Skype Expat Forum Australia Expat Forum for Expats Living in Australia Have you moved to Australia from another country? Are you thinking about making Australia your new home? Want to meet others like you and discuss immigration, property, sport, socialising, food, cars ... See all stories on this topic »

Privacy Groups Call on Microsoft, Skype to Disclose Government Snooping RedOrbit “Skype is a voice, video and chat communications platform with over 600 million users worldwide, effectively making it one of the world's largest telecommunications companies. Many of its users rely on Skype for secure communications—whether they are ... See all stories on this topic » RedOrbit

Can Skype eavesdrop on calls, ask privacy advocates GlobalPost An Egyptian protester streams a demonstration via Skype as people gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square on December 20, 2011. A group of internet activists, privacy advocates and journalists called onSkype to clarify its privacy policy on January 25, 2013. See all stories on this topic »

'Persistently unclear' Skype privacy rules need clarification, Web user groups ... ABA Journal In an open letter to Microsoft and Skype leaders that went up on the Internet on Thursday, advocacy groups call for increased disclosure about the security features and privacy rules that apply to Skype. The letter says the popular phone service, which... See all stories on this topic » ABA Journal

Microsoft asked to open up over privacy of data shared via Skype Zee News It said that many of these people rely on Skype for secure communication, "whether they are activists operating in countries governed by authoritarian regimes, journalists communicating with sensitive sources, or users who wish to talk privately in ... See all stories on this topic »