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PSA: If you're still on Skype, maybe now's the time to move on.

tl;dr of it is: Microsoft is banning all "inappropriate content" from its services, which it defines as "nudity, bestiality, pornography, offensive language, graphic violence, or criminal activity."

Seen a few articles on this over the past few days, just hit me that this impacts the cardiophile community pretty seriously since so many of us still use Skype.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/skyp … an-3433990
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/2 … _language/
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/ne … r-services
https://professional-troublemaker.com/2 … rom-skype/

Now a lot of us only use Skype to keep in touch. But if any of you guys do any 1-on-1 adult sharing sessions, (or just if you're a big fan of swearing) you might want to look for an alternative.

From their statements, it sounds like they'll be using both bots and (in the case of reports) human searches to search through your stuff and catch this inappropriate content. I don't know that they'd stoop to storing and combing through audio and video calls as well, but the language they're using leaves that open for them:

When investigating alleged violations of these Terms, Microsoft reserves the right to review Your Content in order to resolve the issue.

And it defines "Your Content" as:

...which is your communications with others; postings submitted by you to Microsoft via the Services; and the files, photos, documents, audio, digital works, livestreams and videos that you upload, store, broadcast or share through the Services ("Your Content").

If you're caught, they might just block/remove the offending message or they could close your entire account.

At least they're giving people a chance to move on first, sounds like these rules go into effect May 1.

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Re: PSA: If you're still on Skype, maybe now's the time to move on.

From what I've read, this only counts if either party reports it.

Edit:

To elaborate, not even Microsoft is crazy enough to shoot themselves in the foot like that scanning messages proactively and without request. At least I hope not.

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Re: PSA: If you're still on Skype, maybe now's the time to move on.

That would be the sane thing, and a lot of the statements MS has made suggests that ("The recent changes ... provide transparency on how we respond to customer reports of inappropriate public content."), but the way they word the actual agreement leaves them some room to have some sort of automation for it ("We may also block delivery of a communication ... to or from the Services"). They do explicitly say they don't actively snoop on random people's calls though, and I think we can take them up on that.

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