Angry Birds only requests the following two permissions on Android- -Network Communications -System tools (prevent phone from sleeping) This doesn't include

Angry Birds only requests the following two permissions on Android- -Network Communications -System tools (prevent phone from sleeping) This doesn't include even coarse location, much less a fine GPS position. Unless they're cracking your system, they can't get more than a guessed geolocation of the IP address you're at. Nor can they access your contacts, read your personal details, steal your emails, read your phones identifier, etc. Looking at the WSJ story, they don't even include Angry Birds under Android in their analysis. It is, I think, fascinating that there were so many stories on here about Android apps "stealing your data", yet the iPhone market remained opaque, with so many holding some unsupported notion that a high level curation guaranteed good app behavior. In this case, despite the Android version being only ad supported, I have comfort that it can't possibly be doing what the iPhone app is doing.