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Personal Information: Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden: It was citing previously undisclosed intelligence documents made available by fugitive American spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, according to Reuters. Among these new intelligence tools were "leaky" apps on smartphones that could disclose users' locations, age, gender and other personal information and U.S. and British intelligence agencies have plotted ways to gather data from Angry Birds and other smartphone apps that leak users' personal information onto global networks, the New York Times reported on Monday. The Times said the U.S. National Security Agency and its British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters, had tried to exploit increasing volumes of personal data that spill onto networks from new generations of mobile phone technology. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.