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[ NNSquad ] Skype pushing back against WashPost story on chat vs. law enforcement
Skype pushing back against WashPost story on chat vs. law enforcement http://j.mp/PH93kj (Skype) "In the last few days we have seen reports in the media we believe are inaccurate and could mislead the Skype community about our approach to user security and privacy. I want to clear this up." - Mark Gillett - - - They are denying they made architectural changes to make law enforcement access easier, and deny they can monitor voice or video calls. The thing is, the Washington Post article (in which I was quoted) explicitly said they could not monitor voice or video calls, and my sense of the situation was that the architectural changes they made had the effect of making it easier to monitor chat exchanges -- not necessarily that the changes were made for that express purpose. Skype does not appear to be addressing the underlying issue of whether or not chat messages are now easier to provide to law enforcement under the new architecture. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad