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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Yahoo's webcam spying fiasco (GCHQ)
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Yahoo's webcam spying fiasco (GCHQ)
http://j.mp/1cW7Q57 (Guardian)
"The documents also chronicle GCHQ's sustained struggle to keep the
large store of sexually explicit imagery collected by Optic Nerve away
from the eyes of its staff, though there is little discussion about
the privacy implications of storing this material in the first place."
- - -
This project was only possible of course since Yahoo was apparently
not encrypting this data -- which I believe they were explicitly
warned about long ago. And though this report only discusses the
GCHQ-related ops, we can safely assume that other intelligence
services in the EU, Russia, China, et al. were operating similar
programs to the maximal extent of their technological capabilities.
--Lauren--
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