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Optic Nerve: millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ
28 Feb 2014:• Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk
• 1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone
• Yahoo: 'A whole new level of violation of our users' privacy'
• Material included large quantity of sexually explicit images
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28 Feb 2014: Dan Gillmor: The NSA leaks created everyday interest in products built to protect. At a security pow-wow turned sour, that’s a good thing
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28 Feb 2014:
• Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk
• 1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone
• Yahoo: 'A whole new level of violation of our users' privacy'
• Material included large quantity of sexually explicit images -
27 Feb 2014: Section 8 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act permits GCHQ to perform indiscriminate trawls of external data
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27 Feb 2014: Critics react angrily to revelation that GCHQ intercepted and stored millions of images of people not suspected of wrongdoing
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27 Feb 2014:
Alexander says NSA could accept a change where agency would only be allowed to collect phone data related to terrorism
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26 Feb 2014: Jim Sensenbrenner among those concerned by proposals on the table and says his stance to end bulk surveillance is ‘unwavering’
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25 Feb 2014: The social network will no longer change dead users’ pages to the highest privacy setting. By Alex Hern
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24 Feb 2014:
‘Frankly, we’d rather have a gradual organic growth,’ admits secure messaging startup, after suffering its own downtime. By Stuart Dredge
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24 Feb 2014: Ian Brown: The mining of personal data drives profits at Facebook and Google – but companies could give users more control
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21 Feb 2014: Human rights commissioner criticises immigration minister’s comments which publicly identified the location of the private file
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20 Feb 2014:
Security flaw discovered by white-hat hackers in October 2013 was patched by the end of year, admits startup. By Stuart Dredge
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20 Feb 2014: Australian Privacy Foundation says minister compounded the error by revealing the location of the private file
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20 Feb 2014: Release of 10,000 people’s details was an error, says PM. ‘We’ll get to the bottom of it and it won’t happen again’
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19 Feb 2014:
Widespread concerns that people whose personal details appeared online may be exposed to harm if sent home
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