WASHINGTON: In the latest revelation from documents leaked by National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden, US and British spy agencies routinely try to gain access to personal data from the famous game ‘Angry Birds’ and other mobile applications.
The data pouring onto communication networks from the new generation of iPhone and Android apps ranges from phone model and screen size to personal details such as age, gender and location.
Some apps, the documents state, can share users’ most sensitive information such as sexual orientation – and one app recorded in the material even sends specific sexual preferences such as whether or not the user may be a swinger.
A National Security Agency (NSA) document shows location, websites visited and contacts are among the data targeted from mobile applications.
In a statement, the NSA said it was not interested in data beyond “valid foreign intelligence targets”, according to a New York Times report.
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