Is Microsoft peeking into your Skype messages?

JMH · May 22, 2013

If you have any expectations about the privacy of your Skype communications, you may want to reassess them. Microsoft appears to be peeking into Skype messages for security reasons, according to Ars Technica.

The owner of Skype regularly scans the contents of messages sent on the service for signs of fraud, but what's done with the information from those scans -- whether it's stored indefinitely or destroyed -- is unknown.

Is Microsoft peeking into your Skype messages? | Security - InfoWorld

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AceInfinity · May 23, 2013

The most common excuse to justify invading other people's privacy is for security purposes. To some extent, I agree, but this can be abused, and it does not mean that we need to be monitored for everything we do. That's the way I see our future headed though, no privacy at all and everything being monitored, maybe even when you go to the bathroom (in or out of your own home)? May sound funny, but I hope it doesn't get to that point.

Facebook is probably the worst for invading privacy though I would say.

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Is Microsoft peeking into your Skype messages?

JMH

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