Angry Birds, other ‘leaky’ cellphone apps allow NSA to collect massive amounts of data: report – NY Daily News.
These “Angry Birds” are telling more about you than you may know.
The National Security Agency uses the popular smartphone app — with an estimated 1.7 billion downloads worldwide — to take information ranging from a user’s age and location to their sexual orientation, The Guardian newspaper reported, using documents provided by notorious leaker Edward Snowden.
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The latest revelations show how the NSA and its British counterpart, the GCHQ, use “leaky” smartphone apps to absorb data from some of the most popular apps, including Google Maps, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and LinkedIn, the New York Times reported in collaboration with The Guardian.
Since 2007, the agencies have used the apps to grab the information, including users’ political affiliation, to find out things like “Where was my target when they did this?” and “Where is my target going?” the Times reported.