the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, are working on ways to use weak security for smartphone games like Angry Birds to spy on people. The games contain information both about the phone being used and the user – location, gender, age – which would allow the spy agencies to track someone and run the information they suck out through their surveillance infrastructure.
The reality, of course, is the NSA and friends just want everything. People are communicating and we can’t see it? Unacceptable. If the War on Terror didn’t exist these people would have to invent it.
Tracking mobile photos is also a major priority for the NSA, though social media sites often strip those photos of metadata eventually, the NSA is looking for ways to get the information before it is removed. They also suck