China Spies On Skype Conversations.

SkypeA surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations that include selected political keywords,has been discovered by a group of Canadian human rights-activists and computer experts. The system tracks text messages sent by customers of Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese wireless operator and Skype. Some of the keywords triggers the monitoring service are “Tibet”, “Communist Party” or “Democracy”. The stored messages also contained internet addresses, user names and other information which could make the senders and recipients easily identifiable. Skype confirmed that Chinese users of Skype have been spied upon and their communications and identities recorded. Skype is owned by eBay.

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 Skype, is introducing its first plan for unlimited calls to overseas phones. For $9.95 per month the plan will allow unlimited calls to land-line phones in 34 countries. The countries encompassed include most of Europe, plus Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, China, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Malaysia. Skype is a subsidiary of eBay. Inc. Skype is available in 27 languages and is used in almost every country around the world. According to Skype,subscribers called phones for 1.7 billion minutes in the first three months of the year.