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British and U.S spy agencies intercepted webcam and stored images from millions of Yahoo users around the world, according to a report in the Guardian.

The report is based on secret documents taken by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, which have led to international outrage over the stunning extent of oversight of Internet activities.Image data from the Yahoo accounts was collected between 2008 and 2012 under the program, which was run by U.K. surveillance agency GCHQ with assistance from the National Security Agency (NSA).

The secret documents also show that those images may include sexually explicit material. It was estimated that between 3 percent and 11 percent of Yahoo webcam images contained “undesirable nudity.”

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