Welcome to NewsDesk on SiliconANGLE TV for Monday July 8, 2013. Is Motorola in cahoots with the NSA? A recent discovery by a security engineer may hold the answer to this question. Joining us now to reveal details surrounding a privacy breach that may be affecting you is SiliconANGLE Contributing Editor John Casaretto.

Beneath the Waves writer and security engineer Ben Lincoln recently wrote about a disturbing new discovery on the Motorola Droid X2 smartphone. In his editorial Lincoln claims that Motorola is silently collecting personal info including passwords, GPS data from photos, email addresses, and usernames just to name a few.

Along with silently sending a considerable amount of sensitive information to Motorola, Lincoln discovered that the Droid X2 checks in with Motorola every nine minutes and that the data is often sent over an unencrypted HTTP channel.

On today’s NewsDesk, you’ll see John Casaretto put the issue into perspective for us, and discuss how similar scenarios could play out on PCs.

We’ll also get his take on how this ties in with the Edward Snowden case, and how it will affect Motorola’s parent company, Google.

See the live broadcast, embedded below.  If you missed today’s topic, check our YouTube channel for archived clips.