{"id":42843,"date":"2014-03-01T02:30:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T02:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_leaks_show_gchq_captured_ordinary_internet_users_webcam_images\/"},"modified":"2014-03-01T02:30:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T02:30:37","slug":"ft_leaks_show_gchq_captured_ordinary_internet_users_webcam_images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42843","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Leaks show GCHQ captured ordinary internet users\u2019 webcam images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GCHQ, Britain\u2019s electronic spying agency, intercepted and stored images of 1.8m Yahoo users taken from their personal webcams even though most of them were not suspected of wrongdoing, documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden show.<\/p>\n<p>A secret programme called \u201cOptic Nerve\u201d\u009d, run in conjunction with the US National Security Agency, recorded millions of webcam images from ordinary internet users \u201d\u201c as many as one in 10 of them sexually explicit \u201d\u201c \u201cin bulk\u201d\u009d, the UK\u2019s Guardian newspaper reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOptic Nerve\u201d\u009d tapped into Yahoo users\u2019 accounts and took still images from their computer webcams every five minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/01267c6e-9fd2-11e3-9c65-00144feab7de.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GCHQ, Britain\u2019s electronic spying agency, intercepted and stored images of 1.8m Yahoo users taken from their personal webcams even though most of them were not suspected of wrongdoing, documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden show. A secret programme called<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42843\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,433,94,143,199,168,151,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-defense-national-security-military","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}