Optic Nerve
Document Date:
December 1, 2008
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Agency:
Press
Document Type:
Internal NSA Documents/Presentations
Records Collected:
Internet Metadata
GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 stating that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases.