Thursday, February 27, 2014

Give them power? They WILL abuse it!--------------------Spies at GCHQ intercept saucy webcam pics rather than hunting terrorists

CREEPY British spies have been busy intercepting webcam images from around the world rather than hunting terrorists.


GCHQ, Optic Nerve, Spy Agency, Edward Snowden, The Guardian, WebcamsOPTIC NERVE: The British spy agency GCHQ has gathered millions of private webcam images [REUTERS]
The private images were gathered from millions of Yahoo users with sexually explicit images among those gathered by spy agency GCHQ.
Internet giant Yahoo has denied any knowledge of the programme and has described the revelations from t as a "completely unacceptable" privacy violation.
In a statement GCHQ said all of its actions were in accordance with the law.
The operation, named Optic Nerve, was aided by the powerful US National Security Agency (NSA) and is said to have stored images transmitted between 2008 and 2010.

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