By Ishbel Macleod

GCHQ captured stills from millions of Yahoo webcam chats, documents leaked by US whistleblower Edward Snowden have revealed.

According to the documents dated between 2008 and 2010, as part of a project named ‘Optic Nerve’ British surveillance agency GCHQ collected from 1.8 million Yahoo accounts around the world to conduct experiments in facial recognition and to detect criminals or terror suspects.

According to the Guardian, the program saved one image every five minutes from the users’ feeds, with some of the images being sexually explicit.

As one of the documents put it: “Unfortunately, there are issues with undesirable images within the data. It Read full story ›

Source: The Drum