A British intelligence agency indiscriminately collected photos from the webcams of Yahoo users and stored them on its servers over a period of several years as part of a surveillance program called “Optic Nerve.” The operation was run by the UK’s NSA counterpart, GCHQ, according to a top secret documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Her Majesty’s spooks focused on Yahoo webcams because known GCHQ targets reportedly were using them. However, they did not discriminate between who was a target and who was not.
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Brits Hoovered Yahoo Webcams, Say Snowden Papers
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. February 28, 2014 05:00 AMA British intelligence agency indiscriminately collected photos from the webcams of Yahoo users and stored them on its servers over a period of several years as part of a surveillance program called “Optic Nerve.” The operation was run by the UK’s NSA counterpart, GCHQ, according to a top secret documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Her Majesty’s spooks focused on Yahoo webcams because known GCHQ targets reportedly were using them. However, they did not discriminate between who was a target and who was not.