The British spy agency GCHQ and the NSA collected millions of webcam images ... many of them nude [3].
NSA employees routinely pass around nude photos and videos [4] of everyday normal citizens gathered through mass surveillance.
They say: "Trust us, we won't misuse any nude images." They say: "We're the good guys ... just trying to stop bad guys."
But the British security services allegedly helped to cover up widespread pedophelia [5] in Britain. Indeed, a whistleblower alleges that the British security services supported and funded pedophile rings as a way to blackmail establishment figures [6].
Something similar may have happened in the U.S. Yahoo News reported [7] in 2010:
A 2006 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation into the purchase of child pornography online turned up more than 250 civilian and military employees of the Defense Department — including some with the highest available security clearance — who used credit cards or PayPal to purchase images of children in sexual situations. But the Pentagon investigated only a handful of the cases, Defense Department records show.
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But the DCIS opened investigations into only 20 percent of the individuals identified, and succeeded in prosecuting just a handful.
What about the other 80 percent? Were they blackmailed?
Yahoo continues:
Without greater public disclosure of how these cases wound down, it’s impossible to know how or whether any of the names listed in the … papers came in for additional scrutiny.
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According to the records, DCIS prioritized the investigations by focusing on people who had security clearances — since those who have a taste for child pornography can be vulnerable to blackmail and espionage.
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At least some of the people on the … list with security clearances were never pursued and could possibly remain on the job ….
The NSA also tracks people’s porn-viewing habits in order to discredit activists [8]. The NSA also keeps nude [3] and suggestive [9] photos of people in order to blackmail them.
Bill Binney – the high-level NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information, a 32-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a “legend” within the agency, the senior technical director within the agency and managed thousands of NSA employees, an expert on spying by the Soviets [10] – told Washington’s Blog:
This is just one of the ways to make controlling people possible. Standard KGB/Stasi tactics.
Should we really trust these people [11]? Are they the good guys?