Scott Shackford
Reason Magazine
2/27/2014
If you’ve used webcam chats via Yahoo, there’s a chance that Great Britain’s surveillance agency, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), has collected still images of you in bulk, including images of your junk you might have flashed at some lucky person on the other end.
The latest documents leaked by Edward Snowden are about a program called Optic Nerve, which bulk-collected screenshots of Yahoo chats and stored them in databases, one image every five minutes. The images were used for experiments with automated facial recognition to try to monitor terrorism suspects. The Guardian reports…
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