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British spy agency may have seen you naked in surveillance of Yahoo webcam chats |
February 27, 2014
Another day, another revelation about intelligence agencies’ ability to peer into your private life: The Guardian reported that GCHQ, Britain’s surveillance agency, captured stills from Yahoo webcam chats between 2008 and 2010.The program, codenamed Optic Nerve, mined the chats of more than 1.8 million Yahoo users around the world, regardless of whether they were suspected of terrorist activity—and that was just during one 6-month period. The Guardian learned of the program from documents provided by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2102701/british-spy-agency-may-have-seen-you-naked-in-surveillance-of-yahoo-webcam-chats.html#tk.rss_all
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