Microsoft, Skype Disclose Law Enforcement Request Stats

US tech giant Microsoft disclosed that it and its main video chat service Skype received more than 75,000 requests last year from government law enforcement agencies in the United States and other countries to provide customer user data. Microsoft and Skype had received in 2012 a total of 75,378 “criminal law enforcement requests” for customer information, which potentially impacted 137,424 accounts. Approximately 80 percent of the information provided to governmental agencies was “non-content data,” which includes only information like usernames, e-mail addresses, gender, geographic location, IP addresses, and dates and times of online traffic. Only 2.1 percent—1,558 requests—resulted in the disclosure of customer content, Microsoft said. In particular, judging by the statistics, in 2012 Microsoft received no requests from Russia, while Skype received from Russia two requests concerning five accounts, but in no case did Russian requests result in the disclosure of content.

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