US and UK government intelligence agencies targeted Angry Birds among a number of 'leaky' smartphone for the mass collection of private user data. So reports The Guardian, citing top-secret documents it acquired via former CIA employee and NSA contractor Edward Snowden. According to the report, the NSA its UK counterpart GCHQ have secretly targeted popular iPhone and Android games and apps in a bid to scoop up masses of user data as it passes between users' devices to online servers. Personal data transmitted by these apps, usually for the use of publishers and advertisement platforms, could include the device make, model and its unique ID code, as well as more user-specific data including age, gender, location, email address, IP-address, user names and passwords.

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