![]() And in the process, it is making money by selling ad spaces in its games.Īccording to them, the latest update of the Angry Bird on 4th March 2014 works in association with ad-mediation platform and third-party networks which shares the user’s information across multiple parties.Īngry Birds players create a Rovio account to avail themselves of various benefits espoused by the developers, which includes saving scores and in-game weapons, preserving game progress across multiple devices, and so on. While there were denials by these application providers about any breach of trust, a video at the CBS 60 Minutes, shows how Rovio Entertainment, the creator of Angry Birds, shares the user’s location.įireEye, a security vendor, in its official blog provides a detailed explanation of how the smartphone application of Angry Bird shares the user’s information with third party networks. The information collected included age, location, sex, email addresses and other such details that are made available on the applications. HackRead reported earlier how the leaky applications of mobile phones are being abused by the intelligence services to retrieve personal information of the users. The Snowden documents only confirmed that smartphone applications such as Angry Birds had been colluding with the NSA in handing over the personal information about their users. ![]() Mobile applications collecting personal data of users in one form or the other is no more a stunning news.
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