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Skype Goes Big Brother, Allowing Police To Monitor Text Chats

Wednesday, August 1, 2012 12:29
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J. D. Heyes

Naturalnews.com

Long sought and used as a communications tool beyond the reach of Big Brother’s probing eyes, Skype has recently announced the company plans more cooperation with police, to include sharing of text chats.

While surveillance of the audio and video feeds of the online phone service remains impractical – even when courts issue warrants – that barrier, too, could eventually be dismantled as Skype transforms into one of the globe’s premier forms of telecommunication, The Washington Post reported recently.

Nothing, it seems, will get in the way of the Leviathan’s ability to see all, know all.

“The changes to online chats, which are written messages conveyed almost instantaneously between users, result in part from technical upgrades to Skype that were instituted to address outages and other stability issues since Microsoft bought the company last year,” the Post said. “Officials of the United States and other countries have long pushed to expand their access to newer forms of communications to resolve an issue that the FBI calls the ‘going dark’ problem.”

‘Yes, officer – what else can I do for you?’

Once more, it appears, the reason being given for requiring the access is “national security,” though the excuse hasn’t been lost on Microsoft. An industry official familiar with the tech giant’s plans told the Post that the company is approaching the issue with “tremendous sensitivity and a canny awareness of what the issues would be” regarding, most likely, privacy concerns.

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