14/08
True Gamer
Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the 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.
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While the documents do not detail efforts as widescale as those against Yahoo users, one presentation discusses with interest the potential and capabilities of the Xbox 360's Kinect camera, saying it generated "fairly normal webcam traffic" and was being evaluated as part of a wider program.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo
لو تفكروا في موضوع Always-Online وموضوع إجبار المستخدم على شراء/توصيل الكينكت راح تلاحظون أنها تصنع أفضل بيئة للاستخبارات وقيام مايكروسوفت باتخاذ هذي القرارات بدون إي تبريرات مقنعة للمستخدم يحسسني أنها حاليًا بيد الاستخبارات