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UK-GCHQ: Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ

28 February 2014

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"• 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"

See the article: Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ (Guardian, link)

Also: Full document (pdf)

And: GCHQ's cover for Optic Nerve provided by legislation introduced in 2000 - Section 8 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act permits GCHQ to perform indiscriminate trawls of external data (Guardian, link)

And see also: Statewatch coverage: Interception Commissioner fails to report on Section 8(4) certificates authorising GCHQ's mass data collection

Plus Statewatch Observatory: EU-UK-GCHQ-USA-NSA: Data surveillance

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