Britain would have 1.8 million users spying via webcams

The British spy agency had intercepted and recorded images, including sexually explicit communications, exchanged through chats. British spy agency intercepted and stored images from webcams over 1.8 million users of Yahoo! using the National Security Agency of the United States (NSA, as the acronym), according to confidential documents revealed by reported Thursday by the British newspaper "The Guardian." British newspaper said the images were extracted from the cameras computers of people who were not suspected of any crime, which GCHQ (British central tracks) accessed using specific software code-named "Optic Nerve." GCHQ documents, leaked by the exanalista NSA Edward Snowden, states that the aforementioned program collected raw still images from Yahoo! chats between 2008 and 2010 and stored in databases spy agencies. explains that when these images are not intercept had spied into account whether individuals represented a target or not for the intelligence services. Such information is part of the documents leaked by former CIA technician Edward Snowden, exiled in Moscow since June 23 after it revealed espionage Massive committed by the U.S.. According to "The Guardian" in a six month period in 2008, the British agency picked images from webcams including substantial amounts of explicit sexual communication included, over 1.8 million accounts of Yahoo worldwide. When this newspaper contacted Yahoo! server, the second largest in the world after Gmail email-tech giant, according to "The Guardian", reacted with indignation. Yahoo denied any prior knowledge of that software and accused spy agencies employ "a new level of privacy violation" of its members. Secrets documents also reveal the difficulties of GCHQ to keep large amounts of sexually explicit images, collected by that program, away from the vision of its employees. Such a program, as these documents show, began to be used in 2008 and remained active in 2012, and was used in face recognition experiments to monitor existing agency goals British tracks. Such searches could be used, apparently, to try to find suspected terrorists or criminals who were using multiple IDs.