Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:30:39 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
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Subject: [WSFA] Play Angry Birds? The NSA knows....
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Excerpt:
The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been
developing capabilities to take advantage of "leaky" smartphone apps, such
as the wildly popular Angry Birds game, that transmit users' private
information across the internet, according to top secret documents.

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 \342\200\223 and one app recorded in the material even sends
specific sexual preferences such as whether or not the user may be a
swinger.

Many smartphone owners will be unaware of the full extent this information
is being shared across the internet, and even the most sophisticated would
be unlikely to realise that all of it is available for the spy agencies to
collect.
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<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/nsa-gchq-smartphone-app-angry-birds-personal-data>

       mark