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Britain's Spies Were Surprised to Discover Just How Much the World Loves Naked Webchatting

• slate.com
 The big takeaway of this one is that British surveillance agency GCHQ—with an assist from the National Security Agency—interceptd and stored digital snapshots of millions of people grabbed from Yahoo webcasts between 2008 and 2010, many of whom were not intelligence targets. The entire story is worth a read, and you can check it out here. But just in case you need a little more motivation, here's the snippet that will get your attention:
Sexually explicit webcam material proved to be a particular problem for GCHQ, as one document delicately put it: "Unfortunately … it would appear that a surprising number of people use webcam conversations to show intimate parts of their body to the other person.

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