Snowden exposed Angry Birds

Former CIA employee Employee of the USA, Edward Snowden, claims that with the help of the popular Angry Birds game, American and British special services gain access to personal data.

According toBBC , the materials published by The New York Times , Propublica and The Guardian indicate that the NSA and the British Government Communication Center (CPS) have been jointly developing ways to obtain access to information from applications for mobile phones and tablets. The scale of data collection is still unclear.

Data on users are collected from a variety of cartographic applications, games and social networks by approximately the same methods that are used to intercept mobile traffic on the Internet and SMS messages.

Moreover, the published documents indicate that the special services of the United States and the UK are increasingly convinced of the importance of information that can be obtained from mobile applications. “In fact, we are talking about the fact that any person who includes Google Maps on his smartphone automatically begins to work at the CPS,” one of the secret documents dating from 2008 said.

Another report of the 2012 CPS sets out the principles of using information that can be obtained from the Angry Birds application on the Android platform. At the moment, this video game about birds and pigs is probably the most popular mobile application - it has been downloaded 1.7 billion times.

The British intelligence service said that it did not comment on the issues of foreign intelligence, but insists that its activity does not go beyond its authority.

The American NSA document describes the so-called “gold bar”-the ideal scenario for obtaining information by analysts of the NSA from all possible sources, including social and other networks, to which a mobile device is connected, documents loaded into it, the user of Internet sites and lists of contacts, friends, and followers.

Special services are also actively interested in the Flickr photo site, a social network for Flixster movie lovers and Facebook mobile application.