Entry # 1 - January 24 2014

NSA uses smartphone apps to track people, Snowden docs suggest

Jan 24 2014
By: Oscar Qi
CBCnews: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nsa-uses-smartphone-apps-to-track-people-snowden-docs-suggest-1.2512957

Edward Snowden has suggested that the Apps like angry birds can actually stole our personal information from us. Many apps are able to track our location, website, polite details etc. We don’t the how many apps and how many people have downloaded, but the spies from British and USA showed that they are not interest in the object like us. One of the most famous apps that are involved with this special Trojan is angry bird. Angry bird is a very popular worldwide game. It addicted many players and caused 1.7 billion of people downloaded it. However Times and ProPublica said that there is a way to extract information of a player of angry bird from the Android system. Not only the Apps like Angry Bird, but many social app like Facebook can also extract all the information of the phone.

In my opinion, this is a good thing for America and British. However, the problem is how to keep the personal information stay in the Government from the terrorists or other people.  If I have a Trojan in my phone, I’ll feel extremely unsafe because someone will always know what I’m doing and where am I. People never want to have this kind of program in their phone or anywhere near them. I personally disagree with this action. The personal information might leak out and no one is going to take the responsibility for that. Also, it’s useless to have Trajan on the programs like agree birds, because only the people like us play it, the “target” of the spy will barely play them. It only scares people.