Not contend with reading your emails and texts, the NSA apparently also spies on you while you are playing Angry Birds! According to some newly published slides from the NSA and its UK counterpart GCHQ, the spy agencies are watching everything you do from playing the game to uploading Facebook photos.

The spy agencies have been able to check out just about everything people's smartphone identification codes to their buddy lists and their sexual preferences from mobile apps. According to one 2008 document, the collection effort, "effectively means that anyone using Google Maps on a smartphone is working in support of a GCHQ system."

The agency said in a statement:
Any implication that NSA's foreign intelligence collection is focused on the smartphone or social media communications of everyday Americans is not true. … We collect only those communications that we are authorized by law to collect for valid foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes – regardless of the technical means used by the targets.
[Guardian, NYT]

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