Campaigners have written an open letter to Microsoft asking it to disclose details of the confidentiality of data shared over the internet communications service Skype.
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Over 600 million people use
Skype for voice, video and chat
messaging
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The signatories – including the campaign group Reporters Without Borders -
have urged the Microsoft to reveal what
information is stored and to what extent governments try to access it.
Google, Twitter and others already publish transparency reports, although
these are limited in scope.
The letter stresses the importance of Skype as a communication tool, saying
that the 600 million people worldwide rely on it for voice, video and chat
messaging.
It goes on to say that many of these people rely on Skype for secure
communication, “whether they are activists operating in countries governed by
authoritarian regimes, journalists communicating with sensitive sources, or
users who wish to talk privately in confidence with business associates, family,
or friends.”
These users, and those who advise them, the letter says, “face of
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.”
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