It is known to all that spy agencies have been catching personal data from Smartphone apps. National Security Agency (NSA) and one more British agency used PowerPoint Slides has been uncovered recently which indicates that they are intercepting the data through Smartphone and mobile phone apps.
Few major news channels such as The New York Times, The Guardian and ProPublica already reported about the collection of personal data on the basis of the documents provided by Edward Snowden, former NSA contractor. The documents showed that GCHQ British Agency and NSA has already collected some data which is transmitted through Angry Birds, Facebook, Flickr, Flixter, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Maps and Photobucket.
They are collecting not only huge personal data but also even more intrusive information is being transmitted through open cellular networks through apps themselves. This data includes user’s religion, sexual orientation, marital status etc which is transmitted from third party ad networks which place ads in mobile apps.
The agencies, NSA and GCHQ are interested in the personal data of very few people. For people residing in United States, NSA need court orders to look into your data after it has been collected. Spying of a Smartphone is not difficult in nowadays as we know that Smartphone apps have been playing fast and loose with users’ personal data.
Spying of data makes you upset, experts suggests that you should secure your Smartphone to make it harder for spy agencies to gather data from your phone. Following are some of the steps you should take care before using Smarthphones.
If you are playing a game on mobile then make sure that your mobile device is turned into airplane mode. Many of the games won’t require Internet connection to run and killing of network connection will block the ads to stop data transmission. While Connecting to internet turn to virtual private network which may trouble for hackers to eavesdrop on data transmission.
Wait until you completely connected to internet through your mobile phone for updating your social media accounts. Better to install HTTPS browser plugin everywhere, you can get it for free to connect to internet securely. Turn off WiFi, GPS and geolocation as they are used to pinpoint your location later you can turn it on when you actually need them.
In other way, simply you can get rid of Smartphone if possible to stay away from these kinds of spying agencies.
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