Three US senators are planning to investigate the role of the National Security Service (NSA) in Yahoo's massive data collection from its British partner.
Reacting to the Guardian's revelation on Thursday that the secret service of the UK's GCHQ scanned millions of chats from Yahoo users' webcams, Senators Ron Wyden, Mark Udall and Martin Heinrich said in a joint statement that "any involvement of US agencies in the alleged activities reported today should be closely monitored."
The senators described the eavesdropping as "an astonishing lack of respect for privacy and individual freedoms."
Την Παρασκευή, ο Internet Association – ένα εμπορικός φορέας που εκπροσωπεί γίγαντες στο διαδίκτυο όπως την Google, την Amazon, το eBay, το Netflix, την AOL και το Twitter – αντέδρασε καταδικάζοντας τις κατασκοπευτικές ενέργειες, και εξέδωσε μια δήλωση εκφράζοντας την ανησυχία της για τις τελευταίες αποκαλύψεις των δράσεων της GCHQ, ζητώντας άμεσες μεταρsettings.
According to documents published by the Guardian, GCHQ's program, code-named Optic Nerve, collected screengrabs of camera chats and associated metadata with tools of NSA like Xkeyscore.
Ron Wyden, Mark Udall and Martin Heinrich reported:
"We are extremely troubled by today's report that a very large number of individuals – including law-abiding Americans – may have unwittingly turned themselves in privately video του εαυτού τους και των οικογενειών τους στις μυστικές services. If this publication is accurate, it shows a stunning lack of respect for the privacy and individual liberties of law-abiding citizens.”
