Report: Spies use smartphone apps to track people (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF_ctL4CiJuAWnabQHrpwhioXGUbzHlPH1sVhhRSlkPZ6AObiwAG9RKOvXrlAOJ3KGaajC7xUSInHDpU2BBqCDOxOc7ueSY_1FBC3_tgxTBvcx-2js5x22XkRHRh6NMu3n8g_GvH5czMY/s1600/7f59bdbf1e4eb123230f6a706700cb5f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF_ctL4CiJuAWnabQHrpwhioXGUbzHlPH1sVhhRSlkPZ6AObiwAG9RKOvXrlAOJ3KGaajC7xUSInHDpU2BBqCDOxOc7ueSY_1FBC3_tgxTBvcx-2js5x22XkRHRh6NMu3n8g_GvH5czMY/s1600/7f59bdbf1e4eb123230f6a706700cb5f.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390854843542_2841" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">LONDON (AP) — Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden suggest that spy agencies have a powerful ally in the apps installed on smartphones across the globe.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390854843542_2856" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The documents, published by The New York Times, the Guardian, and ProPublica, suggest that the mapping, gaming, and social networking apps available on smartphones can feed America's National Security Agency and Britain's GCHQ spy agency with huge amounts of personal data.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390854843542_2866" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Little is known about the scope and scale of the program, but all three publications outlined how data could be harvested from apps such as the Angry Birds game franchise or Google's popular mapping service.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390854843542_2876" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The NSA said Monday it focused on "valid foreign intelligence targets." GCHQ did not immediately return an email seeking comment.</div></div>

Report: Spies use smartphone apps to track people (BLOG)

LONDON (AP) — Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden suggest that spy agencies have a powerful ally in the apps installed ...

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