NMANews2014.2.26---美NSA英GCHQ开发leaky app收集用户信息

NMANews2014.2.26---美NSA英GCHQ开发leaky app收集用户信息
America's National Security Agency and Britain's Government Communications Headquarters have been developing the ability to exploit so-called "leaky" apps such as Angry Birds that transmit users' personal data when they use their smartphones, according to a report in ProPublica published in conjunction with the Guardian and the New York Times.
A secret 20-page British report from 2012 provided by Edward Snowden stated that the spy agencies were to extract the profiles generated when Android users play smartphone apps such as Angry Birds, which are then passed to mobile ad companies. Angry Birds was created by Finnish company Rovio Entertainment and has been downloaded more than one billion times.
Most profiles contain basic data on the user including age, sex and location. Some contain additional personal information such as sexual orientation, household income, and whether the user is currently listening to music or making a call.
Another secret document leaked by Edward Snowden shows that personal data is also vulnerable when users upload photos to social media sites taken with their mobile devices. The NSA and GCHQ are reportedly able to collect user information such as location data, contact lists, websites visited and documents downloaded from the internet.
It is not clear how much of the information that can be siphoned from mobile phone apps is routinely collected, stored or searched, or how many users may be affected.
美国国家安全局和英国政府通讯总部一直在开发利用所谓的“漏”的应用程序如传输用户的个人资料时，他们使用他们的智能手机愤怒的小鸟的能力，根据一项发表在同一起在ProPublica报告卫报和纽约时报。
从2012年起的秘密20页英报告由爱德华·斯诺登规定指出，间谍机构是提取生成的配置文件，当Android用户玩智能手机应用程序，如愤怒的小鸟，然后再传递到移动广告公司。愤怒的小鸟是由芬兰公司Rovio的娱乐建立并已被下载超过十亿次。
最访问包含在包括年龄，性别和位置的用户基本数据。一些含有额外的个人资料，如性取向，家庭收入，以及用户是否正在听音乐或拨打电话。
由爱德华·斯诺登泄露的另一个秘密文件显示，个人数据也是脆弱的，当用户上传照片到他们的移动设备拍摄的社交媒体网站。美国国家安全局和GCHQ是据说能够收集用户信息，如位置数据，联系人列表，浏览过的网页，并从互联网上下载文件。
目前尚不清楚例行如何，可以从手机应用程序被抽走了太多的信息收集，存储或检索，或有多少用户会受到影响