NEWS: Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ

This piece of news is about British and American agencies that intercepted and stored webcam images of millions of Yahoo users around the world. These users were not suspected of wrongdoing but these agencies still kept their images.

These two agencies did this since 2008 and 2012, and the images stolen were stored in databases. An interesting piece of data shows that in a six-month period alone, these agencies collected photos of more than 1.8 million Yahoo users. 

When asked, Yahoo said that they had no idea about this, and they denied any prior knowledge of the program abd accused these agencies of privacy violation. 

My opinion of all this is that the Internet is no longer a save place. Piece of news like this prove that we are controlled in a lot of ways and arouse a big question: if even countries can spy us, what is left? Are we really free? Or are we in George Orwells' 1984 book? 

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo