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Webcam Alert – NSA Peeping Tom Captures Millions Of Images Worldwide, Many Sexually Explicit”
NSA enjoying quite a show thanks to your webcams
“GCHQ and NSA captured millions of images worldwide, many sexually explicit”
Canada Free Press
By Dan Calabrese (Bio and Archives) Saturday, March 1, 2014
So you’re up late at night, web-chatting on Yahoo with someone in another part of town, or another part of the country – or world. Now you two – being the naughty types – start taking things in a risque direction. Hey. It’s just the Internet, right? Who’s going to see?
Well. Turns out the National Security Agency doesn’t need HBO to get itself one heck of an eyeful. Not with you providing it, and thanks to something called Optic Nerve, that’s exactly what you’re doing. The Irish Times, of all things, reports:
They show the surveillance programme – codenamed Optic Nerve – saved one image every five minutes from randomly selected Yahoo webcam chats and stored them on agency databases.
This was partly to comply with human rights legislation, and also to avoid overloading GCHQ’s servers. The documents show that in one six-month period in 2008, the agency collected webcam imagery – substantial quantities of which were sexually explicit – from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally.
A spokeswoman for Yahoo said the actions of the surveillance agencies represented “a whole new level of violation of our users’ privacy”.
Reposted with permission
Here’s a thought…
Have intimate relationships in person? Crazy…I know!
Open Letter to the alternative media – Read & Share if you want to win! /alternative/2014/02/open-letter-to-the-alternative-media-2895742.html