Skype Handed Over Teenager’s Information to IT Firm -- without a court order. I would recommend using another service.

Pretty sketchy. I would recommend switiching to another service.

[link to www.theepochtimes.com]

excerpt:

"The boy’s personal information—his username, real name, e-mail address, and home address used for making payments—was handed over to the company, according to the police file viewed by NU.

Significantly, Skype handed over the information without receiving a court order, which is in violation of Skype’s stated privacy policy.

“You would imagine that subscriber data aren’t simply handed over. They have to be provided when the police has a valid demand or court order, but not in any other case,” Gerrit-Jan Zwenne, a law professor at the Netherlands-based Information Society in Leiden, told the publication.