Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden is an American computer specialist and a former NSA member who disclosed top secret NSA documents to media outlets such as The Guardina, which reveal operational details of global surveillance apparatus run by the NSA.

http://swampland.time.com/2014/01/27/nsa-could-be-watching-you-play-angry-birds/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/nsa-gchq-smartphone-app-angry-birds-personal-data

• The NSA and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities to take advantage of "leaky" smartphone apps, such as Angry Birds, that transmits users' private information across the internet, according to top secret documents."
• Smartphone applications like Google Maps, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and even games like  Angry Birds provide intelligence agencies with riches of data, including location tracking, address books, buddy lists and phone logs, according to documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and provided to the Guardian, the New York Times"
• Apps are now one of the agencies biggest sources of information