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January 28, 2014 12:46 am GMT
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Report: NSA Snoops on Angry Birds and Other Apps
You can tell a lot about a person based on her smartphone apps — but probably not as much as the National Security Agency can deduce.
The NSA, along with its British counterpart the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), has been tapping "leaky" mobile apps for information about targets since 2007. Newly revealed classified documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden reveal that the intelligence agencies gathered personal information such as users' location, age and sex from apps like Angry Birds.
Three news organizations — the New York Times, the Guardian and ProPublica — jointly published the newly revealed documents Monday. Read more...
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