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 Skype worked with intelligence agencies last year to allow Prism to collect video and
audio conversations. Photograph: Patrick Sinkel/AP
Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users'
communications to be intercepted, including helping the National
Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption, according to
top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.The files provided by Edward Snowden illustrate the scale of co-operation between Silicon Valley and the
intelligence agencies over the last three years. They also shed new
light on the workings of the top-secret Prism program, which was disclosed by the Guardian and the Washington Post last month.The documents show that:• Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would
be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal;• The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail;• The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier access via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has more than 250 million users worldwide;• Microsoft also worked with the FBI's Data Intercept Unit to
"understand" potential issues with a feature in Outlook.com that allows
users to create email aliases;
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