Your personal data in the hands of the CIA through "Angry birds"

Your personal data in the hands of the CIA through "Angry birds"

 

A report published by the British newspaper The Guardian that the National Security Agency and the U.S. are developing techniques to allow them to exploit smart phone applications to gain access to private information of users.

According to the newspaper, the agency can exploit applications, such as the application of the game "Angry Birds" Angry Birds famous for access to information about the user, such as age, sex, geographic location, and other applications may provide more sensitive information, according to the documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the contractor the former with the agency.

The access to the phone data and geographic location of the user, the highest priority to the Agency, in order to bring information about the goals of terrorists and other intelligence, which has spent more than a billion dollars in favor of the special spyware targeting smartphones.

To illustrate the ability of the agency's programs, the report pointed out that once the user to lift the image of social media by using a smart phone, the Agency can collect information such as contacts in the user's phone, and e-mail addresses, and the user's location.

The benefit of the agency social networking applications to obtain all the data stored in the user accounts, such as age, gender, orientation and location of the presence and level of scientific and others.

It is noteworthy that the agency previously said it does not target spyware hers Americans, but those programs directed towards the objectives of foreign intelligence.


The documents also indicated to the Agency has tools that allow them to penetrate specific phones, through many ways, one bearing the name of "Nosey Smurf".

The face and the National Security Agency, the U.S. is under pressure from many sides and the courts, asking them to give up the spyware costly owned, which featured extensive information about recently, has been detected by Edward Snowden, the former contractor with the agency.