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posted by girlwhowaspluggedout on Sunday March 02 2014, @06:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the and-this-one-goes-into-my-private-collection dept.

lhsi writes:

"The Guardian has revealed that GCHQ has been collecting the images of millions of Yahoo! webcam chat users, whether or not they were intelligence targets.

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.

Yahoo reacted furiously to the webcam interception when approached by the Guardian. The company denied any prior knowledge of the program, accusing the agencies of 'a whole new level of violation of our users' privacy'.

According to the documents provided by Edward Snowden, the system, called Optic Nerve, saved one image every five minutes from Yahoo! users' feeds. These users, the documents reveals, were 'unselected', i.e. indiscriminately targeted. GCHQ doesn't have the technical means to make sure no images of UK or US citizens are collected and stored by the system."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by jt on Sunday March 02 2014, @11:52AM

    by jt (2890) on Sunday March 02 2014, @11:52AM (#9533)

    If they start watching our webcams I think they will need to buy some more widescreen monitors.

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