"• 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
“• 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