The San Francisco Chronicle
reports:
If you used a webcam on Yahoo between 2008 and 2012, a British spy agency might have intercepted your images – even those that were sexually explicit.
This shocking news is the latest revelation of National Security Agency-related privacy violations triggered by whistle blower Edward Snowden.
A story published by The Guardian, citing documents obtained from Snowden, said the NSA helped the British surveillance agency GCHQ intercept millions of webcam images in a program code-named Optical Nerve starting in 2008.
At one point that year alone, Optical Nerve accessed more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts around the world.
Fortunately, my pet sheep promised to testify under oath that the images have been altered and that I was at the time at a democratic fund raiser for Hillary...
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