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UK agency collected Yahoo webcam images

The UK intelligence agency, GCHQ, collected still images from 1.8 million Yahoo webcam users between 2008 and 2010, reports The Guardian. The secret surveillance programme, code named Optic Nerve, included spying on people not suspected of any wrongdoing. The still images, some sexual explicit, were saved to agency databases,

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