British spy agency GCHQ has spied on millions of Yahoo users' webcam images as part of a bulk collection program codenamed Optic Nerve, according to the latest report based on documents provided by Edward Snowden.
The GCHQ, with help from the NSA, collected a vast number of webcam pictures from 1.8 million users over a six-month period by tapping fiber optic cables. The program began as a prototype in 2008 but was still active in 2012, The Guardian reported.
A large number of images turned out to be pornographic: Between 3% and 11% of the entire database harvested by GCHQ contained "undesirable nudity," the documents read Read more...
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