was apparently also interested in tapping into Microsoft’s Kinect.) It did so indiscriminately-taking everything it could, whether or not there was any reason to suspect the person involved. (Yahoo has said that it didn’t know about this and that it’s angry the G.C.H.Q. collected Yahoo-webcam exchanges as they were sent. The Guardian got the documents about webcam interception by way of Edward Snowden, whose leaks have been an education. “It would appear that a surprising number of people use webcam conversations to show intimate parts of their body to the other person.” Before getting distracted by the question of whether that is, in fact, surprising, one has to ask: What other private things do the G.C.H.Q. “Unfortunately, there are issues with undesirable images within the data,” a document from Britain’s General Communications Headquarters, a spying agency, says about its interception of citizens’ private webcams.
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