Instapundit » Blog Archive » SPYING: UK spy agency intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users. “GCHQ files dating bet…: "SPYING: UK spy agency intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users. “GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases, regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence target or not. In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam imagery – including substantial quantities of sexually explicit communications – from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally.”
Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 10:43 am"
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