Microsoft Corporation (MSFT): Were We Hoodwinked Over NSA Skype-tapping?

This could mean some more trouble for Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), as it claimed in a 2012 transparency report – which showed the number of National Security Letters (NSLs) sent to the company and the reason for the data request – that it had not handed over any Skype communications in the entire 2012 year.

However, the NSA made the claim in the PowerPoint that it knew how to gather Skype communications and data. Now, we understand that due to FISA rules, companies are under a gag order not to disclose  any data-collection requests sent under FISA rules specifically, but it seems the Microsoft is saying that the NSA could not or did not get any communications off of Skype, rather than at least saying in vague legal terms that it did receive requests for information but did something about them rather than playing as if Skype communications were untouchable and thus making us believe that under no circumstances did Microsoft hand over any communications from Skype.

What do you think? Is there something fishy here involving Skype and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)? Let us know in the comments section below.

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