Optic Nerve

21st Century Wire says…
Apathy and apologism for the continued encroachment on digital/electronic privacy rights in the United Kingdom is still very high. We are told that it’s ‘for our safety’, in case of ‘terrorist attack’ at home or the threat of it from abroad. Many people still run with the programmed line of ‘nothing to fear if you’ve nothing to hide’.
Glenn Greenwald said it well in a discussion on ‘Why Privacy Matters’…

Every phone call, no matter the device is recorded, every image, website visited, personal details such as medical and financial records, contacts, everything private to you is no longer private. Under just one of dozens of surveillance programmes, one was called “Optic Nerve” that captured millions of images via webcams, illegally taken and stored. An undisclosed number, but estimated to be around one fifth of the population were images that were “compromising in nature” including that of naked young children in their homes and intimate images between consenting adults.