{"id":2773,"date":"2014-01-28T03:58:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T03:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2014-01-28T03:58:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T03:58:55","slug":"nsa-and-gchq-target-leaky-phone-apps-like-angry-birds-to-scoop-user-data-world-news-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/28\/nsa-and-gchq-target-leaky-phone-apps-like-angry-birds-to-scoop-user-data-world-news-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA and GCHQ target &#8216;leaky&#8217; phone apps like Angry Birds to scoop user data | World news | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities to take advantage of &#8220;leaky&#8221; smartphone apps, such as the wildly popular Angry Birds game, that transmit users&#8217; private information across the internet, according to top secret documents.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;\u00a0most sensitive information such as sexual orientation \u2013\u00a0and\u00a0one app recorded in the material\u00a0even sends specific sexual\u00a0preferences such as whether or not the user may be\u00a0a swinger.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jan\/27\/nsa-gchq-smartphone-app-angry-birds-personal-data\">NSA and GCHQ target &#8216;leaky&#8217; phone apps like Angry Birds to scoop user data | World news | The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities to take advantage of &#8220;leaky&#8221; smartphone apps, such as the wildly popular Angry Birds game, that transmit users&#8217; private information across the internet, according to top secret documents. The data pouring onto communication networks from the new generation of iPhone and Android [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-IJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2774,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions\/2774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}