http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/05/24/skype-shenanigans/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=skype-shenanigans USC professor and author of The Wikipedia Revolution Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:18:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/05/24/skype-shenanigans/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Andrew Lih » Blog Archive » Yahoo, China and personal data privacy Sun, 04 Jun 2006 01:18:17 +0000 http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/05/24/skype-shenanigans/#comment-41 [...] I also wrote about similar shenanigans with Skype on this issue (as did Rebecca MacKinnon) of local partners in China doing the dirtywork of filtering and handing over private data, while the US partner claims no responsibility. But Yahoo has also complied with data mining by the US Justice Department in relation to COPA “research,” even when it was not legally obliged to do so: Semel was also downright misleading when asked about Yahoo’s willing cooperation with a U.S. government fishing expedition of search data — while Yahoo and Microsoft cooperated, Google responsibly did not. [...] [...] I also wrote about similar shenanigans with Skype on this issue (as did Rebecca MacKinnon) of local partners in China doing the dirtywork of filtering and handing over private data, while the US partner claims no responsibility. But Yahoo has also complied with data mining by the US Justice Department in relation to COPA “research,” even when it was not legally obliged to do so: Semel was also downright misleading when asked about Yahoo’s willing cooperation with a U.S. government fishing expedition of search data — while Yahoo and Microsoft cooperated, Google responsibly did not. [...]

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