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.
It seems to be impolite to point out that if you find a lot of amateur porn when you spy on people who "are not intelligence targets", that's probably because amateur porn was what you were looking for.
"Unfortunately … it would appear that a surprising number of people use webcam conversations to show intimate parts of their body to the other person. Also, the fact that the Yahoo software allows more than one person to view a webcam stream without necessarily sending a reciprocal stream means that it appears sometimes to be used for broadcasting pornography."
One can almost hear the bodies hitting the floor in Fort Meade and Cheltenham in a mass attack of the vapours.
Posted by: NomadUK | February 28, 2014 at 12:31 PM
We really are getting to the point where it is obvious that they just set out to scoop up any damn thing because they had the budget and TERRORISTS, and the technology kept getting better, and, well, why not. The applications for this speak for themselves - mostly "trying out a new face recognition algo".
Posted by: Alex | February 28, 2014 at 12:51 PM