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Did the NSA Illegally Use Your Webcam to Spy On You? Find Out!
Are you a Bible thumping, Constitution loving, patriotic tea-bagger? Privacy International has established a platform by which you can find out if the Obama’s use of the NSA to illegally spy on Americans was tracking YOUR phone and Internet usage. Worse, was it using your webcam to without your knowledge or a warrant to spy on you? In a previous post, Does the FBI Maintain a File On You, See What it Says, I advised you on how to use the Freedom of Information Act to find out if the F.B.I. is keeping a file on you. If you’re as outspoken as I am, you want to know things like, “Am I on the list of 8 Million Americans To Be Detained When Martial Law Imposed?“ Now you have the tools to find out. GCHQ is Great Britain’s equivalent of the NSA, and all the disturbing information they gathered, was done with the help of the NSA, as you’ll learn below.
In the first video below, Eric King, deputy director of Privacy International, talks to Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi about the recent ruling that intelligence sharing between NSA & GCHQ was illegal. He says that all information sharing prior to December 2014 was illegal, and, as Snowden claimed, they used ‘jurisdictional arbitrage’ to get around the legal system by spying on foreigners and swapping information with each other. GCHQ were forced to reveal how they deal with material provided to them by the NSA, and what happens is massive amounts of information is collected and then shared in its raw format.
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In the second video, The United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters – their version of the National Security Agency – intercepted millions of Yahoo users’ webcam images, with the help of the NSA. The program, called “Optic Nerve,” was revealed through documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Yahoo condemned the collection and storing of its users’ webchat images. “This report, if true, represents a whole new level of violation of our users’ privacy that is completely unacceptable,” the company said in a statement.
The Tory MP David Davis said:
“We now know that millions of Yahoo account holders were filmed without their knowledge through their webcams, the images of which were subsequently stored by GCHQ and the NSA. This is, frankly, creepy.”
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As if the first two videos aren’t disturbing enough, it has also been learned the NSA and the UK’s GCHQ spying agencies have collected players’ charts and deployed real-life agents into online World of Warcraft and Second Life games, a new leak by whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed.
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Privacy International has created a platform through which individuals and organizations can file complaints with GCHQ about surveillance of phone calls and internet usage. The charity has long concerned itself with government surveillance, particularly the sharing of data between the NSA and GCHQ.
The legality of mass surveillance has been questioned by many, and it has already been determined that human rights organization Amnesty International was illegally spied on. Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations have led to a huge increase in awareness of privacy issues, and now Privacy International is making it easier to find out if you were spied on, and to lodge an official complaint.
It does not matter if you are acting on your own, or working in conjunction with a legal representative, you can still make use of Privacy International’s site. You will be guided through the process of submitting a claim to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal; all of the necessary documents will be created for you ready to print out, sign, and post off. Privacy International announced the availability of the service on Twitter:
NEW platform lets you file a claim against GCHQ to ask if you comms were illegally spied on https://t.co/n5glFP0DpT pic.twitter.com/dPjTFyTlDA
— PrivacyInternational (@privacyint) September 14, 2015
Eric King, Deputy Director of Privacy International, said:
No-one should need to have access to a secret government dictionary in order to understand if their rights have been violated. These legal challenges are designed to get to the heart of the surveillance word games that mislead the public about the scope of surveillance going on in their name. The public have a right to know if they were illegally spied on, and GCHQ must come clean on whose records they hold, some of which they should never have had in the first place.
The launch of the new complaints platform is the culmination of month of work. The Did GCHQ Illegally Spy On You? campaign launched in February 2015, and the level of interest this generated led to the creation of the site. It is hard to step back in time and change what has happened, but as Privacy International’s FAQ explains: “If the IPT is able to establish that you have been unlawfully spied on, they have to tell you. You will receive a declaration that your privacy rights have been violated and you can request that any information unlawfully obtained is deleted”.
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Since I made my own computer and physically disconnect both my webcam and microphone when not in use I’m going to go ahead and say that its highly unlikely the NSA can activate my webcam whilst I am unaware.
Turn your webcam towards the wall…