
<p>Washington, Jan. 28 (ANI): The latest claim to come from the trove of secret documents revealed by Edward Snowden has reportedly pointed out that the US intelligence agency allegedly used 'leaky' mobile apps to carve out user data for surveillance.</p><p>The NSA and its UK counterpart, the GCHQ, allegedly used apps like Angry Birds, Google Maps, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook etc., to pull out user data</p><p>According to Cnet, the information collected from these seemingly innocent and secure apps include details about the user's location, age, daily whereabouts, address books and a lot more.</p><p>The classified documents revealed that the mobile app initiative between the two spy agencies has been up and running since 2007, and they have traded programmes to collect location and planning data when a target uses Google Maps or sends posts or pictures via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Flicker apps.</p><p><a href="http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2014/01/28/68-NSA-using-mobile-apps-like-Angry-Birds-Flickr-Google-Maps-to-pull-out-user-data.html">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.katu.com/news/tech/Angry-Birds-site-hacked-after-surveillance-claims-242643991.html">Angry Birds site hacked after surveillance claims</a> (KATU)</p><p><a href="http://9to5mac.com/2014/01/27/new-leaked-docs-show-nsa-collects-personal-data-from-smartphone-apps/">New leaked docs show NSA collects personal data from smartphone apps</a> (9 to 5 Mac)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=d9ZNM_H3b-MY88Mb5PXZMcGAvR9hM&authuser=0&ned=us">781 additional articles.</a></p>