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If it is not possible to see what other people is saying it possible for microsoft to use wlm to see waht you are talking about and other things like email skype and other things.

Technically, it is possible. But that would require way too much effort and no one from Microsoft would even bother reading users' conversations. Unless there's some legal issues. Read their privacy policy for more information.

ok but that means we are not safe?

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Originally posted by nod32
ok but that means we are not safe?

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Theoretically no, but in realitly they arn't going to read what your talking about. Why are you so worried anyway, unless your talking about something dodgylymegaevil it wont mater anyway

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Originally posted by ChatMaster

But that would mean they have to be reading it to see that there is legal issues.

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No. For example if the police had a warrent to record your chats they could go to microsoft and ask them. Thats the only real time they would listen in.

... but they wouldn't use WLM for it, like nod32 suggested...

You never know, a bot could be looking out for keywords for the NSA...  The only thing that will save you is a TFH

But seriously, I doubt MS keeps logs of every users convo's "just incase". E-mails are a different story, because they are kept on the server. If someone with a warrent forced MS to hand over the e-mails they just may. Or they could fight it like google did when the NSA tried to get search terms people had used.

if microsoft are loggong your chats/emails it will probablly be for something serious: and if your doing something serious you shouldnt be so stupid to openly admit to the thing.

by serious i mean terrorism. im sure i could email 500 people: im robbing every petrol station.. and nothing would happen.

I thought that your Internet Provider can,
because you're sending the message from your pc to the ISP then to the WLM's Server's so thereotrically the ISP has it (if they keep record of everything!)

Microsoft has being hacked several times, sombody can hack it then find out what we are saying.

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9. Privacy.

We consider your use of the service to be private. However, we may access or disclose information about you, your account and/or the content of your communications, in order to: (1) comply with the law or legal process served on us; (2) enforce and investigate potential violations of this contract; including use of this service to participate in, or facilitate, activities that violate the law; or (3) protect the rights, property, or safety of Microsoft, its employees, its customers or the public.  You consent to the access and disclosures outlined in this section.

We may use technology or other means to protect the service, protect our customers, or stop you from breaching this contract.  These means may include, for example, filtering to stop spam or increase security.  These means may hinder or break your use of the service.

In order to provide you the service, we may collect certain information about service performance, your machine and your service use.  We may automatically upload this information from your machine.  This data will not personally identify you.  You may read about this information collection in more detail in the privacy policy at  http://privacy.microsoft.com.