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Report: U.K. spy agency collected Yahoo webcam images
Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, aided by the National Security Agency,
have intercepted and stored the webcam images from millions of Yahoo chats
by users who were not being targeted for any wrongdoing, The Guardian
reports, quoting from secret documents. The British newspaper says GCHQ
files dated from 2008 to 2010 show that a program codenamed Optic Nerve
collected the still images in bulk and stored them in databases. The report
about Optic Nerve is based on documents provided by NSA whistle-blower
Edward Snowden, who has received political asylum in Russia. Yahoo "reacted
furiously" to the reported interceptions when approached by the newspaper,
The Guardian said. It said the company denied any prior knowledge of the
program and accused the surveillance agencies of "a whole new level of
violation of our users' privacy."
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Ibrahim I. Suliman
Received on Thu Feb 27 2014 - 11:17:53 EST