Articles in the Skype Category
Skype, Surveillance »
The Information Warfare Monitor, a joint project of the Advanced Network Research Group, part of the Cambridge Security Programme, The SecDev Group and the Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, has released major investigative report, Breaching Trust: An analysis of surveillance and security practices on China’s TOM-Skype platform (PDF of full report), detailing a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations that include politically charged words on the popular Skype platform. The …
4th Amendment, Privacy, Skype, Surveillance »
A Skype user over at Grain of Salt has discovered an interesting caveat in the “To whom does Skype transfer Your personal information?” section of their privacy policy:
Except as provided below, Skype shall not sell, rent, trade or otherwise transfer any Personal and/or Traffic Data or Communications Content to any third party without Your explicit permission, unless it is obliged to do so under applicable laws or by order of the competent authorities.
[...] Please be informed that, notwithstanding the abovementioned, in the event of a designated competent authority requesting Skype …
