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Skype Hands Teenager's Information To Private Firm

Posted by Unknown on from the but-we-were-friends dept.

New submitter andrew3 writes "Skype has allegedly handed the information of a 16-year-old boy to a security firm. The information was later handed over to Dutch law enforcement. No court order was served for the disclosure. The teenager was suspected of being part of a DDoS packet flood as a part of the Anonymous 'Operation Payback'." According to the article, Skype voluntarily disclosed the information to the third party firm without any kind of police order, possibly violating a few privacy laws and their own policies.

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  1. Re:The new paradigm by janrinok · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Didn't this happen in Holland? What has it got to do with the US Justice system?

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  2. Re:Another win by dmbasso · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You are right, this is actually a win to centralized protocols. We need a standard encrypted p2p communication (im / voip / file sharing / etc) to be widely adopted asap. And then protest / revolt when they try to outlaw it.

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  3. Re:The new paradigm by Dunbal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You haven't noticed how the US is extraditing people all over the world for breaking US law even though what they may have been doing was perfectly legal in their country?

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