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Title: Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ Post by: Wilikon on February 27, 2014, 09:36:56 PM • Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk
• 1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone • Yahoo: 'A whole new level of violation of our users' privacy' • Material included large quantity of sexually explicit images Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US 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. Yahoo reacted furiously to the webcam interception when approached by the Guardian. The company denied any prior knowledge of the program, accusing the agencies of "a whole new level of violation of our users' privacy". GCHQ does not have the technical means to make sure no images of UK or US citizens are collected and stored by the system, and there are no restrictions under UK law to prevent Americans' images being accessed by British analysts without an individual warrant. The documents also chronicle GCHQ's sustained struggle to keep the large store of sexually explicit imagery collected by Optic Nerve away from the eyes of its staff, though there is little discussion about the privacy implications of storing this material in the first place. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Re: Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ Post by: mkendall82 on March 01, 2014, 11:49:37 AM omg! How it can be legal?? What's actually a violation of our rights and freedoms >:(
Title: Re: Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ Post by: niothor on March 01, 2014, 04:46:29 PM So , right now GCHQ can rival with pornhub and start accepting bitcoin for payperview?
Title: Re: Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ Post by: E.exchanger on March 02, 2014, 10:45:16 PM Omg its against the policies, someone fuck yahoo. :o >:(
Yahoo is not safe anymore there are yahoo xxs releasing everyday and they are not doing anything about it maybe because of their insecure system they shut down yahoo chat rooms as well Title: Re: Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ Post by: Bit_Happy on March 03, 2014, 05:51:41 AM Omg its against the policies, someone fuck yahoo. :o >:( Yahoo is not safe anymore there are yahoo xxs releasing everyday and they are not doing anything about it maybe because of their insecure system they shut down yahoo chat rooms as well I don't go there much, and I didn't know they had such a bad rep. Title: Re: Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ Post by: Wanesst on March 05, 2014, 09:50:56 AM That's too rude to be true. It can't be legal!
Title: Re: Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ Post by: niothor on March 05, 2014, 07:37:47 PM That's too rude to be true. It can't be legal! And how are you so sure about it? Even if it's not , would you go in court for this? Title: Re: Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ Post by: Lethn on March 05, 2014, 08:35:29 PM That's too rude to be true. It can't be legal! And how are you so sure about it? Even if it's not , would you go in court for this? Let's be honest, complacent people like you are precisely why government agencies can get away with this crap, I hope you were trolling though. Title: Re: Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ Post by: niothor on March 05, 2014, 10:24:37 PM That's too rude to be true. It can't be legal! And how are you so sure about it? Even if it's not , would you go in court for this? Let's be honest, complacent people like you are precisely why government agencies can get away with this crap, I hope you were trolling though. I was asking this because I know how 99% of people only complain for a few days on the forum , news websites , etc and after a month they all form a line to get their ass *** by the same government they claimed they will overthrow. |