Belarusian law enforcers received the information about 35 Skype accounts last year from Microsoft (Skype’s owner).
It is stated in the report Law Enforcement Requests Report, which has been published in the company’s official blog.
Microsoft claims that in 2012 Belarusian special services addressed the company five times with requests on 35 Skype accounts. The company disclosed so-called identifiers, which the requests demanded for. The very chats content and other data, related to the transmitted information, voice and videocalls, were not disclosed.
“We demand for court’s decisions or an equivalent document before we consider the issue of disclosing data, not containing the content and we demand for a court’s decision or an order before be consider disclosing a user’s content”, - they claim at Microsoft.
Belarus is only present in the lists for Skype requests. Belarusian law enforcers did not address Microsoft for user data of other services and applications of the company.
It is worth mentioning that the judiciary is dependent in Belarus and the order can be written by, among others, KGB officials themselves. Belarusian specials services deal with political prosecution, and political and civic activists and journalists often fall victims to Belarusian law enforcers’ criminal activities.
Commentator Aliaksandr Krasnapeutsau
It is stated in the report Law Enforcement Requests Report, which has been published in the company’s official blog.
Microsoft claims that in 2012 Belarusian special services addressed the company five times with requests on 35 Skype accounts. The company disclosed so-called identifiers, which the requests demanded for. The very chats content and other data, related to the transmitted information, voice and videocalls, were not disclosed.
“We demand for court’s decisions or an equivalent document before we consider the issue of disclosing data, not containing the content and we demand for a court’s decision or an order before be consider disclosing a user’s content”, - they claim at Microsoft.
Belarus is only present in the lists for Skype requests. Belarusian law enforcers did not address Microsoft for user data of other services and applications of the company.
It is worth mentioning that the judiciary is dependent in Belarus and the order can be written by, among others, KGB officials themselves. Belarusian specials services deal with political prosecution, and political and civic activists and journalists often fall victims to Belarusian law enforcers’ criminal activities.
Commentator Aliaksandr Krasnapeutsau
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