Recent documents reveal the NSA and GCHQ is using the apps so-called leaky apps to collect data from smartphones.
According to documents provided by Edward Snowden and published in the New York Times, the Guardian, and ProPublica Monday__ the National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarter (GCHQ) have been collecting information and data about a user’s age, address books, gain information from web browsing etc from cell phones.From Angry Birds to apps which are able to share pictures and location like Facebook, Flickr and Twitter as well as Google Maps are called leaky apps and use to collect data.
The New York Times reports:-
Since then, the agencies have traded recipes for grabbing location and planning data when a target uses Google Maps, and for vacuuming up address books, buddy lists, phone logs and the geographic data embedded in photos when someone sends a post to the mobile versions of Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, Twitter and other services.
All type of data that has been collected, the spy agency can place together everything like the location of tagging photo, web browsing history and phone call records to put together a picture of where you have been and what you were doing.
The two spy agencies have been collecting data since 2007 and the NSA saw its budget from $204 million to $767 million.
It is not clear that companies know that their apps were being used in this way.Angry Birds creator Rovio has reported that the advertising that come with the free version is handled by a third party company called Millennial Media.
At this time the NSA and GCHQ collection methods are unclear.
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