nsane.forums Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Skype has dropped the ball on user privacy when it gave a Dutch 16-year old's personal information to a private security company without any legal obligation to do so. Skype has hundreds of millions of users being the biggest VOIP service provider around, so when allegations of misconduct around user privacy begin to emerge, it’s really something to pay attention to. This is exactly what’s happening now after Skype gave a 16-year old’s information to an IT security company without any legal obligation to do so. The whole story began when Paypal hired iSIGHT Partners, a Dutch cyber security firm, to deal with all the attacks coming from Anonymous over the whole WikiLeaks/Paypal debacle. Joep Gommers, senior director of global research at iSIGHT began researching and eventually got hold of the pseudonym of one of the supposed attackers, a 16-year old Dutch citizen. Gommers contacted Skype, who incidentally were one of his firm’s clients, and requested the account information of the suspect. Skype handed over the user’s information without any legal obligation to do so. This includes the boy’s user name, real name, e-mail addresses and the home address used for payment. "You would imagine that subscriber data aren't simply handed over. They have to be provided when the police has a valid demand or court order, but not in any other case" said Gerrit-Jan Zwenne, a professor of Law and Information Society in Leiden. He went on to add he is not sure whether the law allows technology companies such as Skype to simply hand over private information without a court order. As for Skype themselves they declared they take user privacy very seriously and they only release it when mandated by the courts. According to them they are conducting an internal investigation as to how user data got in the hands of a private firm. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shamu726 Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Skype's going to the dogs since Microshit took it over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 wtf... :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emerglines Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Haha !! this is way i don't trust software use internet connection to update or work fully with internet don't trust free shit :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwardecl Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 "Haha !! this is way i don't trust software use internet connection to update or work fully with internet don't trust free shit :)"?!?I'd rather trust "free shit" if it's open source, at least you know what information it's communicating, but in the instant messenger world you have little choice I must admit. Microsoft which sells your info... nice, AOL... well... Google probably the lesser of the two evils but nobody uses it and yahoo and various other stuff that is not common.I don't really understand why anyone uses anything from Microsoft... but that's just me... and MSN/Live Messenger or whatever they want to call it today is going to be migrated to Skype... so that's that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liverpal Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 again and again! :( Internet is insecure even skype.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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