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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: 0) by sce7mjm on Sunday March 02 2014, @10:30AM
Why do we trust Yahoo Facebook Google etc... at all.
People think that it is perfectly acceptable and safe to wave ones saggy fleshy bits in front of a camera, which is taking images and sending them via a profit making business which has means of identifying you, your home, your bank accounts and easily every member (sic) of your family, to some known or unknown recipient.
As soon as it turns out that GCHQ for whatever motive is seeing some of these images and everybody is horrified!!! What?!!!!
Just because we've signed (ticked the box) some bullshit usage agreement and privacy statement (which we didn't read properly anyway) we think in someway we are protected from misuse.
There is a simple answer to this.
STOP WAVING YOUR COCK AT YOUR LAPTOP.