Surveillance Feathers Winter 2014, The Truth as Told by Angry Birds

Surveillance Feathers Winter 2014, The Truth as Told by Angry Birds

In January 2014, the popular game Angry Birds was rocked.
The shadow of surveillance lurking in the midst of play took the world by surprise.
Agencies in the U.S. and the U.K. were collecting information through the app.
They were able to see your location, gender, age, and even ideology.

Lives were being peeked at under the fingers of the game-obsessed.
The developer denied any involvement, but the truth remained vague.
Two days after the news report, the site was hijacked.
The letters that appeared were "Spying Birds.

The culprits were identified as the Syrian Electronic Army.
Supporting the Assad regime, they had attacked news organizations in various countries.
They have a history of disrupting markets by spreading false information about explosions.
They were fighting another war using information as a weapon.

The game was silent, but the meaning of that silence had changed.
The red bird did not just fly.
It was a silent dialogue between the seen and the unseen.