GCHQ collected material from webcams - part of which was sexual - over 1,8 million Yahoo user accounts worldwide.
The British Service GCHQ, with the help of the NSA, has been intercepted by web cameras by millions of Internet users, according to a Guardian report.
The British newspaper cites documents that were leaked as part of the Snowden case and cover the period 2008-2010. According to them, GCHQ ran a program, called Optic Nerve, in which they were collected en masse photos από συνομιλίες μέσω webcam στο Yahoo και αποστέλλονταν σε fundamentals service data.
Over a six-month period in 2008, GCHQ collected material from the webcams – some of which was of sexual content – of more than 1,8 million Yahoo account users around the world. According to the Guardian, the program, instead of saving the conversations in their entirety, was "saving" one picture every five minutes.
According to the report, the service was carrying out this activity regardless of whether the unsuspecting users had been identified as "targets" of interest by the intelligence services or not.
Yahoo has reacted strongly to the disclosure by denying any knowledge about the program and blaming information services for a "new level of privacy violation".
The offices of the British Service GCHQ.
It is noted that, according to the documents, GCHQ went to great lengths to keep secret the existence of a large amount of sexually explicit material it had collected as part of Optic Nerve, even from its own staff. As regards to duration του προγράμματος, στο δημοσίευμα αναφέρεται ότι ξεκίνησε το 2008 και φαίνεται να ήταν ενεργό ως το 2012.Σε σχετική ανακοίνωσή της, η βρετανική υπηρεσία αναφέρει ότι είναι πολιτική της να μην προβαίνει σε σχόλια όσον αφορά σε θέματα πληροφοριών. Ωστόσο, διαβεβαιώνει ότι όλες της οι δραστηριότητες εντάσσονται σε ένα αυστηρά καθορισμένο νομικό και πολιτικό πλαίσιο, το οποίο εξασφαλίζει τη νομιμότητά τους.
Source: naftemporiki.gr
