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Le scénario parfait pour la #NSA : mettre une photo prise avec son smartphone sur un réseau social.

Spy Agencies Tap Data Streaming From Phone Apps - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/world/spy-agencies-scour-phone-apps-for-personal-data.html

According to dozens of previously undisclosed classified documents, among the most valuable of those unintended intelligence tools are so-called leaky apps that spew everything from the smartphone identification codes of users to where they have been that day.

Le scénario est à la page numérotée 11 de ce document ▻https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1009660-nsa.html
ou ici en pdf

via La Tribune
Les applications pour smartphone sont aussi des mouchards pour la NSA
▻http://www.latribune.fr/technos-medias/20140128trib000812225/les-applications-pour-smartphone-sont-aussi-des-mouchards-pour-la-nsa.html

Facebook, GoogleMaps... La NSA se cache aussi derrière les applis de votre smartphone. Après les révélations sur la collecte des métadonnées téléphoniques, sur la récupération des SMS ou encore la surveillance des plateformes de jeux en ligne, de nouveaux documents fournis par l’ancien consultant Edward Snowden dévoilent encore un peu plus la portée des activités de surveillance de l’agence américaine de renseignement chargée des interceptions de communications, et son homologue britannique, les Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), rapporte le New York Times.

Spy Agencies Scour Phone Apps for Personal Data - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/world/spy-agencies-scour-phone-apps-for-personal-data.html?emc=edit_na_20140127

When a smartphone user opens Angry Birds, the popular game application, and starts slinging birds at chortling green pigs, spy agencies have plotted how to lurk in the background to snatch data revealing the player’s location, age, sex and other personal information, according to secret British intelligence documents.

In their globe-spanning surveillance for terrorism suspects and other targets, the National Security Agency and its British counterpart have been trying to exploit a basic byproduct of modern telecommunications: With each new generation of mobile phone technology, ever greater amounts of personal data pour onto networks where spies can pick it up.

And while he expressed concern about advertising companies that collect information on people to send tailored ads to their mobile phones, he offered no hint that American spies routinely seize that data. Nothing in the secret reports indicates that the companies cooperate with the spy agencies to share the information; the topic is not addressed.

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Even sophisticated users are often unaware of how smartphones offer a unique opportunity for one-stop shopping for information about them. “By having these devices in our pockets and using them more and more,” said Philippe Langlois, who has studied the vulnerabilities of mobile phone networks and is the founder of the Paris-based company Priority One Security, “you’re somehow becoming a sensor for the world intelligence community.”

“It effectively means that anyone using Google Maps on a smartphone is working in support of a G.C.H.Q. system,” a secret 2008 report by the British agency says.

According to the report, the Millennial profiles contain much of the same information as the others, but several categories listed as “optional,” including ethnicity, marital status and sexual orientation, suggest that much wider sweeps of personal data may take place.

Possible categories for marital status, the report says, include single, married, divorced, engaged and “swinger”; those for sexual orientation are straight, gay, bisexual and “not sure.” It is unclear whether the “not sure” category exists because so many phone apps are used by children, or because insufficient data may be available.