Rovio denies given User Data In Spy Agencies

Rovio, developer of Angry Bird recently denied that they give the user information to the U.S. and British intelligence, and suspect data leak comes from a third party ad network.

The company said in a statement Tuesday expressing, Rovio Entertainment Ltd. based in Finland do not provide the data, collaborate or collude with spy agencies like the NSA or any governmental GCHG in any region in the world.

Rovio emerged as a rebuttal statement to The New York Times reports that originated from Edward Snowden. In the report states, the National Security Agency and British intelligence agencies cooperate to collect and store data generated from dozens of smartphone applications, including from a number of popular games like Angry Birds.

Times reported, since 2007, the intelligence agencies to exchange information and to obtain the location of the data plan when the target uses a Google Map, as well as obtain phone contacts, friend list, phone logs and data location in the image when someone post to Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, Twitter and other services mobile version.

Rovio party suspect, tapping may be done through a third party ad network used by millions of websites and commercial mobile applications. While Rovio not allow any third party networks to use or retrieve user data from applications Rovio.

Mikael Hed, CEO of Rovio Entertainment revealed that Rovio will reevaluate cooperation with third party network if they use it for spying.

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