Report: Skype And Microsoft Handed Over Calls And Emails To NSA

Submitted by MomT on Thu, 07/11/2013 - 18:30

TechCrunch.com Gregory Ferenstein posted 6 hours ago

The Guardian revealed more top-secret documents alleging that both Skype and Microsoft cooperated with U.S. spy agencies to give away the content of email and video chats. Though it’s unclear whether the collection of this data was indiscriminate or targeted at specific subjects, the language of the documents indicate that the NSA may not have needed an individual warrant for each request.

“Collaborative teamwork was the key to the successful addition of another provider to the Prism system,” the documents read. “This success is the result of the FBI working for many months with Microsoft to get this tasking and collection solution established.”

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