Documents leaked from the former employee to NSA, Edward Snowden show that n service has a strong ally in installed smartphone apps around the world.
The documents, published by the newspaper The New York Times, Guardian, and ProPublica, show that mapping apps, games, as well as social networking apps available for smartphones can send the US National Security Agency and Britain's GCHQ huge amounts of personal data.
Little is currently known about the scope and scale of the program, but all three sites noted that the data they can be collected by apps such as the Angry Birds game franchise or Google's popular mapping service.
