Skype Helping China Snoop On Users

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10-04-2008, 12:01 PM,

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Skype Helping China Snoop On Users

Quote:Companies hoping to dial up international business with China may have yet another reason to think twice about privacy concerns, following new revelations that the Communist country has been spying on Skype-based phone calls and text messages.

Citizen Lab, a University of Toronto-based security and human rights research group, partnered with several other international agencies to release a report this week detailing flaws within TOM-Skype, the Chinese version of the popular Internet protocol (IP) communications company. The company has apparently been monitoring personal information generated by phone calls, focusing on keywords in messages and storing all text messages on publicly accessible servers that were discovered by Citizen Lab.

The keywords contain words known to raise the hackles of Communist party leaders: Falun Gong, Taiwan independence, criticism of China's government.

"These findings raise key questions," the report states. "To what extent do TOM Online and Skype cooperate with the Chinese government in monitoring the communications of activists and dissidents as well as ordinary citizens?...

full article: http://ecommercetimes.com/story/64697.html

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