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.
High Chancellor Cameron will not be pleased this information is out.
https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/433252820012113921/photo/1
At least their comments were constructive and not the lowest common denominator response… no, wait…
There are always idiots around who are anti-establishment for the sake of it. Unless you have something constructive to add to a debate, don’t bother.
If you have an alternative, stand as a candidate and let the people decide.
The link wasn’t supposed to be taken seriously.
Edited 2014-02-27 15:24 UTC
I don’t think it should be taked with a smile eather.
Well humour differs between different people. I found it hilarious.
I bet goddamn Nazis were saying the same thing to the opposition before they decided it’s easier to execute and send to camps than tolerate annoying anti police state people.
Are you comparing him to Nazis? you just lost the argument.
Edited 2014-02-27 18:14 UTC
Really? Nazis?! sigh…
Furthermore, I’m sure Adurbe was wearing shoes when he wrote that post.
And, you know who else wore shoes?
Hitler.
It’s true. Look it up if you don’t believe me.
Adurbe might own a dog … guess who also had a dog? HITLER!
😀
Edited 2014-02-27 20:43 UTC
Heheheh. Hitler did indeed own a dog:
http://youtu.be/WoDZpcagVyQ
I haven’t seen that before and I have a few Monty python films.
Cracked me right up.
Edited 2014-02-27 21:33 UTC
I remember it from “…And Now For Something Completely Different”, though that movie didn’t have a laugh track, so this clip must be from the show.
The skit is about a guy that writes the world’s funniest joke – it’s so funny, he dies of a heart attack. His mother comes in, sees his dead body and an apparent suicide note, reads the joke, laughs so hard she dies of a heart attack.
England then attempts to translate and weaponize the joke to be used against Germany in WWII.
I think I’ve heard it before that explanation before.
It took me two tries to get the joke and then I just lost it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr_91leJpXo
Losing my dignity while watching this now …
According to reliable sources, he also… ahem, “had” a donkey too:
http://youtu.be/kBM8j9Na2ok
TBH He does have a good point, that sort of feedback isn’t constructive. But I thought it illustrated how polarising he is.
Well, at least he’s not Tony Abbott…
You know there is a Lord High Chancellor in the UK government, and he is LOWER on the pecking order than the Prime Minister (Cameron’s actual job).
A rough equivalent for the US would be to try and mock Obama by calling him “Secretary of State”.
Perhaps just calling him “Darth Cameron” or the like would have made your point better…
I think that its a refernece to John Hurt’s character in V for Vendetta (who is in essance the dictator of Britain)
Perhaps so — maybe even likely — but without context it is just unclear and confusing.
Still, His Highness don’t give much of a fuck about His peasant-like subjects only there to serve as laboring tax payer or cannon fodder in the worst scenario.
Kochise
The UK doesn’t currently have a king, either.
I got it.
As we are being all political
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhfDm6LIcAAaKsw.jpg
Next year marks the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. It’s perhaps unsurprising that the government doesn’t plan to mark it with any great celebration of our ancient liberties. But will the people of England remember, and try to recover, all that that document came to represent and stand for?
Don’t be stupid.
Why are there no comments on the topic?
Is it because people don’t care as much as the journalists and chattering classes like to think we do?
Looking at the quality of debate in these comments, honestly, I’d be tempted to think the commentators were planted as part of a counter-narratives effort.
Now that everyone carries a camera with them at all times I bet they have lots more pictures to play with.
I hope nobody is surprised by this news. We have cameras and microphones literally everywhere now. You think anyone has any real privacy with all that surveillance sitting right there just asking to be abused? …Please