Britain's surveillance agency is said to have captured images from millions of Yahoo users' webcams as part of a broad program running from 2008 through at least 2012. According to the Guardian, the GCHQ was able to intercept webcam images from more than 1.8 million users over a period of just six months in 2008. The images were used for intelligence by gathering metadata and testing facial recognition technology — though they were reportedly taken from users who had not been suspected of wrongdoing. Yahoo denies having knowledge of Optic Nerve and calls the alleged program "completely unacceptable."
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