British Intelligence Service Spied Using Webcams

Daniel 12:4 NLT “But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end, when many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase."

A new document from the trove of NSA leaker Edward Snowden shows that the British intelligence services used webcams of Yahoo users to spy on them including taking nude pictures of users.

The GCHQ ran a program called Optic Nerve between 2008 and 2010 that collected images from Yahoo webcam chats and stored them even if the users in the chats were not considered targets of intelligence operations.

In one six month period over 1.8 million Yahoo users were spied on worldwide.

When the Guardian newspaper contacted Yahoo, officials were furious to find out they had been targeted by intelligence services.  The company termed the action “a whole new level of violation of our users’ privacy.”

There are no restrictions in British law that would keep them from tracking Americans and storing information about them without an individual warrant.

One thought on “British Intelligence Service Spied Using Webcams

  1. Someday it won’t matter if there are no restrictions in a law preventing this from happening again in our country or anywhere else. People seem to find ways of doing evil in spite of laws written or spoken! Woe to those that are dealing with ungodliness. God protect your own & have mercy on us please! Amen!!

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