If you keep a computer in your bedroom or any other living area of the house, and it has a webcam, you may want to reconsider some of your daily activities. As if modern humans didn’t have reason enough to be paranoid about being monitored and tracked by their technologies, news from the U.K. this week is adding more fodder.

The U.K. spy agency GCHQ is being accused of intercepting millions of Yahoo webcam images, collecting information from some 1.8 million users over at least a six-month period, the U.K. newspaper The Guardian is reporting. A program called Optic Nerve was reportedly collecting the information, including private sex videos, in bulk. Many of the people whose images were captured were not suspected of any wrong doing, or being targeted for investigation. (On a positive front, the NSA probably feels it has company in its misery today.)

For its part, Yahoo has responded with outrage, calling the action by the spy agency “a whole new level of violation of our users' privacy.” The company has denied any knowledge or complicity with GCHQ’s activities, and remains one of the most outspoken technology companies against NSA spying activities.

The agency’s activities involved users in both the U.K. and the U.S., as well as places such as Australia and New Zealand, though the Guardian notes that Americans and other non-Britons are not protected by British privacy laws.

“GCHQ does not have the technical means to make sure no images of U.K. or U.S. citizens are collected and stored by the system, and there are no restrictions under U.K. law to prevent Americans' images being accessed by British analysts without an individual warrant,” wrote Spencer Ackerman and James Ball for The Guardian.

The apparent goal of Optic Nerve, which was revealed from documents released by NSA leaker Edward Snowden – the same person responsible for blowing the lid off the U.S. government’s questionable collection of data from cell phones – was not to collect streams of video, but rather one image every five minutes from user’s feeds. The images were then subject to facial recognition software, ostensibly to root out the activities of crime and terrorism suspects.

The Guardian notes that the documents indicated that GCHQ made efforts to limit analysts' ability to see webcam images, particularly ones involving sexual images and nudity, by restricting bulk searches to metadata only. Metadata, however, is the reason the NSA is in such deep water with the American people – and possibly the courts – today.