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This is why I have a piece of cardboard hanging over my webcam. That would have seemed extremely paranoid last year.
Anyone have any recommendations for a nicer looking manufactured version of this?
Disgusting. A new low. Who the fuck do you think you are, UK & USA? You do not have the right to intrude the way you do.
Like it or not, this is the reality of our world now: control belongs to paranoid career bureaucrats more interested in preserving their budgets than any measure of civil liberty.
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Obviously, it's not a good thing, but is it really worse than recording all phone call metadata and phone call content?
Yes, because for political purposes, a compromising photo has far better blackmail value than other data.
This really isn't any worse than the other invasions of privacy that have been revealed – but it's much easier to point at it as an egregious and visceral violation of privacy. Even though webcam stills may be the least important (or useful) spying the US and UK have been doing, this may be some of the best fodder for arguments to limit such activities. So thank you, UK, for being so dumb.
I assume they do the same with Skype, Lync etc. I hate the thought of being photographed by these creepy "intelligence officers" every time I'm on a webcam. Probably it also happens when we don't use the webcam.
Potentially GCHQ could be sat on one of the largest private collections of indecent images of people underage. The age range is liable to be 14-50, the article says around 7% were of people doing naughty things on camera, even if that tails off at the age extremes that's still a worrying thought. Keeping a creepy eye on your junk, just in case you're a terrorist.
More seriously, in a way, I think it's good that this happened because I hope that it will be a wake up call to the public opinion so that we might avoid living in a future with no rights to privacy. I'm really grateful that Snowden made the sacrifices he did to give us those information.
It's amazing to think of the potential of blackmail over politicians these kind of scheme would give...
This really isn't any worse than the other invasions of privacy that have been revealed – but it's much easier to point at it as an egregious and visceral violation of privacy. Even though webcam stills may be the least important (or useful) spying the US and UK have been doing, this may be some of the best fodder for arguments to limit such activities. So thank you, UK, for being so dumb.
Blackmail. Polticial, economic, and spying-related informant-turning blackmail.
The CIA's primary business is getting informants and agents all over the world. Usually via some threat. This is perfect fodder for it.
Using cheating and sex (ie homosexuality in the 50s) against people is one of the most classic examples of recruiting strategies for intelligence agencies.
I wonder what they are doing with all the d #k pics? Making a database and cross referencing them with d #k pics of known terrorists? To use in conjunction with full body scanners at airports so they can more easily spot a potential terrorist just by looking at their junk? Stranger things have happened.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...
Disgusting. A new low. Who the fuck do you think you are, UK & USA? You do not have the right to intrude the way you do.