Documents leaked from the former employee to NSA, Edward Snowden show that the service has a strong ally in installed applications smartphones worldwide.
The documents, published by The New York Times, Guardian, and ProPublica, show that mapping apps, games, and social networking apps available for smartphones can send massive amounts of personal data to America's National Security Agency and Britain's GCHQ.
Very little is currently known about the scope and scale of the prolettertos, but also all three websites exsignalnan that data can be collected by applications such as the Angry Birds game franchise or Google's popular mapping service.