GCHQ is very aware
People so like to bare To you its innocent chat
With a bit of nudity; no harm in that
If consenting adults its fine
Nobody has crossed the line
But they’ll keep the pics around
Case it’s you they need to hound
So don’t use a laptop in bed
You’ll put your privates on the web
They’re not collecting all this for fun
They got dirt on just about everyone
We reached the final evolution
Of this technological revolution
The days of freedom are lost
Governments want control at all cost
So the citizens must always comply
With the old and very ancient lie
That freedom is really a bad deal
Cos they always find someone to squeal
Spencer Ackerman and James Ball - The Guardian, Thursday 27
February 2014 16.16 GMT
Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal. GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases, regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence target or not.
In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam
imagery – including substantial quantities of sexually explicit communications
– from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally.
