UK spy agency intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users (suspected, program)

[Grizzmeister]

GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide | World news | theguardian.com

Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal.

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.

This on the heels of Glenn Greenwald's shocking piece in The Intercept.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2...-manipulation/

[Gtownoe]

Prosecute em. That's the only way some of this tyranny is gonna stop. That's not just relevant to this thread but many.


United we Stand and Divided we Fall. Right now the D's and R's are doing a great job of keeping us divided.

[Grizzmeister]

I'm just gonna quote Sir Winston Churchill:

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”