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June 20, 2013 06:05 pm GMT

Report: Skype Considered Government Requests

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Skype had a secret program to determine ways it could technically and legally cooperate with government requests for users' content, according to a report.

The program, "Project Chess," began five years ago — well before Microsoft purchased Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011, according to the New York Times.

Per the report, a dozen Skype employees were involved in Project Chess, which was created to overcome internal division over how best to handle the government's user information requests

It's not clear whether Project Chess immediately resulted in a program enabling the government to access Skype users' calls or chats. According to the PRISM Internet surveillance documents leaked by Edward Snowden, Skype joined that program in 2011 — just months before Microsoft bought the company.

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