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Re:GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users... by acqq on Thursday February 27, 2014 @12:33PM (#7313504)
Wrong. It is worse. It's the first confirmation of

Bulk, large scale collection

Of Content, moreover the visual and explicit

Of people not suspected of any crime.

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Re:GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users... by cryoshon on Thursday February 27, 2014 @01:17PM (#7313844)
Agreed, this is important, if only for confirmation value.

Before this, we didn't have hard evidence that the large scale collection was grabbing content of non-suspects in addition to the to/from data.

I'm not sure what rationalization is left to hide under, but I bet that people will still try to say that this isn't so bad.

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