Jeff Larson

author

Spy agencies scour 'leaky' smartphone apps for personal data

When a smartphone user opens Angry Birds, the popular game application, and starts slinging birds at chortling green pigs, spy agencies have plotted how to lurk in the background to snatch data revealing the player's location, age, sex and other personal information, according to secret British intelligence documents.

By James Glanz, Jeff Larson and ANDREW LEHREN●

January 27, 2014 at 12:55 pm

Jeff Larson

author

Spy agencies scour 'leaky' smartphone apps for personal data

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