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from the and-this-one-goes-into-my-private-collection dept.
lhsi writes:
"The Guardian has revealed that GCHQ has been collecting the images of millions of Yahoo! webcam chat users, whether or not they were intelligence targets.
In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam imagery including substantial quantities of sexually explicit communications from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally.
Yahoo reacted furiously to the webcam interception when approached by the Guardian. The company denied any prior knowledge of the program, accusing the agencies of 'a whole new level of violation of our users' privacy'.
According to the documents provided by Edward Snowden, the system, called Optic Nerve, saved one image every five minutes from Yahoo! users' feeds. These users, the documents reveals, were 'unselected', i.e. indiscriminately targeted. GCHQ doesn't have the technical means to make sure no images of UK or US citizens are collected and stored by the system."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by mojo chan on Sunday March 02 2014, @07:11AM
Targeting comes later. Need to blackmail someone? You have five years of Yahoo webcam images to mine for embarrassing pictures. Naturally they had to build in facial recognition to make searching easier, and create a massive database of innocent people's faces. I bet it's just like CSI where all the faces flash up needlessly as it searches, just to show how cool it.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)