Feb 27
Edward Snowden’s bag of treats, rather repository of damning classified documents, brings another electronic spying scandal to light. Britain’s GCHQ, Her Majesty’s equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency, has reportedly been involved in collecting still images of Yahoo webcam chats “in bulk,” reports The Guardian which has received said documents from Snowden. The program was called Optic Nerve was ran through 2008-2010. Images collected were saved to the agency’s databases, they were collected regardless of the possibility that users were possible intelligence targets or not. Oh, and the NSA helped them.
British Spies Collected Yahoo Webcam Chat Images ‘In Bulk’ original content from Ubergizmo. 
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