Skype [part of eBay]…said on Thursday that TOM Online Inc, majority owners of Skype's Chinese venture TOM-Skype, had been monitoring and storing some of its users' text messages without Skype's knowledge. Skype apologized after a report [by University of Toronto Citizen Lab] revealed that the Web service monitors text chats with politically sensitive keywords and stores them along with millions of personal user records on computers that could be easily accessed by anybody, including the Chinese government…TOM Group, parent company of…TOM Online, said…that it follows Chinese regulations.