NSA can reportedly tap smartphone users' data

The German news outlet Spiegel has revealed that The National Security Agency has the ability to access user data on three of the most popular smartphone platforms - iPhone, BlackBerry and Android.

The magazine cited internal documents from the NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ in which the agencies describe setting up dedicated teams for each type of phone as part of their effort to gather intelligence on potential threats such as terrorists. The documents also state that it is possible for the NSA to tap most sensitive data held on these smart phones, including contact lists, SMS traffic, notes and location information about where a user has been.

The agency has reportedly succeeded at cracking the encryption for BlackBerry's e-mail system, previously considered very secure. Spiegel says that there were brief periods when the security agency lost access to BlackBerry data, but the UK's GCHQ was able to tap into the OS once again after BlackBerry changed the way it compressed its data.

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