Skype has announced that TOM Online, owning the majority of shares of the Chinese society TOM-Skype, has monitored and stored part of the text messages sent by Skype users, without letting Skype know that.
Skype appologized after a report brought to the surface that the service is monitoring chat messages that contain political interest keywords, and stores them among millions of personal records of computer users. They could be accessed by anyone, including chinese authorities.
Jennifer Caukin, s Skype representant, who owns the minoritary share package of TOM-Skype, recognized the existence of this breach on TOM’s servers and said that this issue has been resolved. Continue reading »
