By John Glenday

GCHQ has been accused of intercepting and storing Yahoo webcam images of millions of internet users in what American internet giant has labelled a ‘whole new level of violation of our user’s privacy’.

The British intelligence agency, in collaboration with the US national Security Agency, is alleged by the guardian to have operated a clandestine operation codenamed Optic Nerve, which gathered data from millions of people between 2008 and 2010 who were not suspected of any wrongdoing.

Such was the scale of the operation that in one six month period alone more than 1.8m Yahoo accounts were intercepted in this manner, gathering Read full story ›

Source: The Drum