Researchers from the University of Toronto recently discovered a vast filtering system located in China that was being used to track and and hold records of text messages containing politically important keywords sent through Skype China’s internet messaging system. These records were being held on computers that could be accessed by anybody, including China’s government. Voice calls made by the program were not included in the stored information.
Tom-Skype, a joint venture of Tom Online and Skype, is effectively Skype’s arm in China, and admitted on Thursday that they had engaged in monitoring and storing some of its users’ text messages, apologizing for the incident.
A spokeswoman for Skype, an eBay company, has now come forward, admitting to the privacy invasion of their servers, and insisting that the breach has now be corrected.
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