Skype users face “persistently unclear and confusing statements about the...
Skype users face “persistently unclear and confusing statements about the confidentiality of Skype conversations, and in particular the access that governments and other third parties have to Skype user data and communications,” said privacy advocates in an open letter to…
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the Microsoft-owned company on Thursday (http://xrl.us/bob636). The letter’s authors call for “a regularly updated Transparency Report” that includes Microsoft and Skype data collection and retention policies, Skype’s understanding of how third parties may intercept user data and how Skype responds to third party requests for user data. Signatories include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, Reporters Without Borders and Dan Gillmor, director of Arizona State University’s Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and an early journalism blogger.