UK agency’s effort to gather facial images via Yahoo chat sessions brings in too many other body parts. 9 Android Apps To enhance Security, Privacy (Click image for larger view.) The Five Eyes, a term used to explain the transnational intelligence-gathering alliance between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the united kingdom, and the united states, will be more aptly named the Million Eyes, to mirror more accurately the agencies’ ability to access webcam communications. The UK’s GCHQ intelligence service, with the aid of the NSA, reportedly grabbed snapshots from millions of Yahoo users’ webcam chat sessions in recent times, about 7% of which contained “undesirable nudity.” On Thursday, in line with documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden, The Guardian published information about an intelligence-gathering program called Optic Nerve, which began in 2008 and continued a minimum of through 2012, designed to check facial recognition technology and to spot persons of interest. [Should Google Glass users learn self-defense? Read Google Glass Prompts Attack, Woman Claims.] Optic Nerve... Read More »