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General Discussion => Other Discussions => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Snake X on December 02, 2011, 08:01:45 pm
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Well, I herd about it on the nightly news. If you don't know already, Carrier IQ is a piece of software deeply embedded into certain mobile devices.
Here's my thoughts on it to be exact: I think it is a *complete* violation of federal laws. Not the fact that it "doesnt record data" (I'll talk about this in a moment), it also forces upon users to take part of it. This is for example, similar to.. say windows 7 without you choosing to send in crash reports. You must send crash reports no matter what. The only way to remove it is by rooting and installing a custom rom as from what I can tell. The other reason I believe is that despite their claims that it "doesn't record the information", how can it not? Unless it can self-diagnose itself (i.e. 0% human interaction), someone somewhere must take that data in order to diagnose it, and if its not done in real-time, then it has to be stored somewhere or else they can't do anything about it unless they actually have the information that was processed during the event.
- http://androidsecuritytest.com/features/logs-and-services/loggers/carrieriq/carrieriq-part2/
edit: They are being sued (shocker)
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I heard about it as well. Damn, that's kinda scary. They can access personal information.
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Yeah.. I just can't wait to see the results of all the lawsuits going against them lol
Also i wonder if boost mobile suports carrier IQ
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I certainly hope Verizon doesn't use it, and it seems they don't.
I definitely agree this has to violate some law(s), even if only because the phone user isn't expressly notified of what this does/can do.
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HAH! They finally admitted they do indeed record data: http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/03/carrier-iq-vp-says-software-poses-no-threat-to-user-privacy-bac/