As part of their arsenal of spying tools, the National Security Agency and its British counterpart, the GCHQ, are sucking up personal data leaked from smartphone apps, according to documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The newest global surveillance revelations made possible by Snowden were published Monday in a partnership of the Guardian, the New York Times and ProPublica.

Smartphone users may have numerous apps on their phones to play games, navigate and use social networking sites, but these data-using and data-gathering tools also appear to be providing a treasure trove of information for the NSA and GCHQ to exploit.

According to their reporting, the spy agencies collaborated to work out how to best obtain and store all the data—which could include users’ age, geolocation, sexual orientation, address books, marital status, number of children and other personal information—from the burgeoning number of from iPhone and Android apps.

One app GCHQ specified as being amongst its targets for gathering data is the popular game AngryBirds, while a 2010 slide from the NSA seen by the news agencies titled “Golden Nugget!” says that a “target uploading a photo to a social media site taken with a mobile device” is a “perfect scenario.”

The Guardian reports:

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