Civil liberties advocates and many companies resolutely oppose the plan, saying it is unworkable, an infringement on individualprivacy and destined to stunt the growth of electronic commerce.
On Thursday a group of 44 privacy and free expression groups along with 61 individual academics, activists and entrepreneurs signed their names to an open letter to Microsoft, demanding that its Skype division detail its government surveillance policies and practices.
As an employee and as anindividual, you should use all privacy protections the internet and its services will afford you in terms ofprivacy protection on the information people can readily find.