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better put some clothes on because the government may be peeping through your webcam I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update smartphone theft is a growing problem and to counter this crisis we're seeing companies invent new methods of protection to deter thieves like a phone that will self-destruct aircraft manufacturer Boeing is making a phone for the world of espionage it's codename black and it will erase all data and deactivate if anyone tries to tamper with the phone or pry it open now many details about this smartphone are confidential because it's for government agencies and companies involved with defense and Homeland Security you gotta wonder if blackberry is worried about the competition because they were the ones known for security and on the topic of governments and privacy it turns out that Britain's spy agency with the help of the US government snapped photos from the webcams of 1.8 million yahoo users and most of those folks were not suspected of any wrongdoing this is just the latest report from The Guardian that reveals details from the secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden these government agencies were collecting photos from webcams of yahoo users and they said it was for facial recognition experiments as well as to monitor existing suspects and discover new targets of interest yahoo says they had nothing to do with this and yahoo told the Guardian that this is quote a whole new level of violation of our users privacy moving on to later news let's talk about video games some online gameplay features will disappear from older Nintendo game systems the original nintendo wii and the portable nintendo DS and dsi will no longer have access to multiplayer matchmaking and leaderboards on May twentieth offline play will still be available and online play will still work for the newer Wii U and 3ds systems and here's a new fitness gadget to keep an eye on it's called move and it takes fitness tracking a step further by offering real time coaching feedback it knows what you're doing such as boxing or running and if you put the sensor on your wrist it'll count your jabs put it on your snake it can measure things like your landing impact if you attach it to golf clubs well they could offer tips on how to improve your swing and of course there are achievements to share it sounds too good to be true because it doesn't exist yet it's asking for funding on its website and it wants to release the product this summer it would like to sell the trackers for 120 dollars a piece that's your tech news update you can find more details at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey