Rovio denies selling out Angry Birds players to NSA

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64026a5b325a18a71510d318c992ed27.jpgAlthough we've come to expect the National Security Agency to spy on Internet users by hacking into Microsoft, Google and Facebook's data centers, even the most cynical among us didn't imagine that the NSA had similarly latched its tentacles onto Angry Birds. And yet that's just what we learned on Monday when a Pro Publica investigation found that spy agencies are able to determine an Angry Birds player's "location, age, sex and other personal information" using data culled from advertising firms such as Millennial Media.

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