Microsoft Helped NSA Siphon Hotmail, Skype User Data

InformationWeek: "Your privacy is our priority." So goes the tagline for Microsoft's marketing campaign launched in April.

While it's a worthy sentiment, leaked National Security Agency (NSA) documents show that the U.S. government agency has a different priority: Direct access to all Hotmail and Outlook.com emails, as well as all audio and video communications handled by Skype, which has an estimated 663 million global users.

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