No Skype traffic released to cops or spooks, insists Microsoft
Microsoft's Skype subsidiary didn't hand over any user content to law enforcement, according to the software giant's first ever report on how it deals with official requests for data.
As previously reported), Microsoft's transparency report revealed that Redmond received 75,378 requests from law enforcement agencies worldwide last year, involving 137,424 user accounts.
Microsoft supplied a separate set of figures for its Skype peer-to-peer VoIP subsidiary, which Redmond bought in late 2011 and operated until recently under a separate reporting structure and legal jurisdiction (Luxembourg law). Skype serviced 4,713 requests for data or information from law enforcement during 2012 that involved 15,409 accounts.
