NSA may be reading your text messages

Published September 9, 2013 4:00am ET



National Security Agency officials may be reading your smartphone text messages, looking through your contact lists and tracking where you’ve been, according to newly released documents obtained by German news outlet Der Spiegel.

The documents claim the smartphone spying is targeted and not universal, however the targeting has occurred allegedly without the smartphone companies’ knowledge. IPhones, BlackBerrys and phones using Google’s Android OS were all subject to spying.

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