Communication
security
British and
Canadian spy agencies accumulated sensitive data on smartphone users, including
location, app preferences, and unique device identifiers, by piggybacking on
ubiquitous software from advertising and analytics companies, according to a
document obtained by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The document, included in
a trove of Snowden material released by Der
Spiegel on January 17, outlines a secret program run by the
intelligence agencies called BADASS. The German newsweekly did not write
about the BADASS document, attaching it to a broader article on cyberwarfare.
According to The
Intercept‘s analysis of the document, intelligence agents
applied BADASS software filters
to streams of intercepted internet traffic, plucking from
that traffic unencrypted uploads from smartphones to servers run by
advertising and analytics companies.
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