With the help of the NSA surveillance Team Great Britain Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ ) images and webcam chats intercepted and stored millions of innocent Internet users. GCHQ is the British equivalent of the NSA, an intelligence agency that focuses on communications.
According to The Guardian, the documents revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, explicitly state that surveillance program called Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and save to databases of agency, regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence target or not .
in a six month period in 08 alone, the imagery collected agency webcam - including significant amounts of sexually explicit communications -. more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts worldwide
GCHQ has no technical means to ensure that no UK or US citizens pictures are collected and stored by the system, and there are no restrictions under British law to prevent images of Americans being accessible by British analysts without the individual mandate.
them as chronic sustained struggle document GCHQ to keep the store sexually explicit images collected by Optic Nerve away from the eyes of his staff, but there is little discussion of the implications of storing the material in the first place privacy
Read the full story to millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ - the Guardian ..
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