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Your iPhone Is Secretly Tracking Everywhere You Go Yesterday, we told you about a ominous denial from the FBI regarding its involvement with Carrier IQ. Today, Carrier IQ spoke to us on the matter.
While the FBI has so far blocked FOIA attempts regarding its involvement in the Carrier IQ scandal, the embattled firm has released an expansive report detailing its data collection process and responds directly the allegations against it.
Well, I suppose this was inevitable: the FBI, via a Freedom of Information Act request denial, inadvertently admitted to using Carrier IQ data. That’s data about you, sucked off of your phone, without your knowledge.
According to security consultant Dan Rosenberg, the Carrier IQ spyware in his Samsung Epic 4G is not recording his text keystrokes. Rosenberg also claims that Carrier IQ cannot record SMS text bodies, emails or web page contents:
All hell broke loose yesterday when it was discovered that some Android phones (and BlackBerries and others) are recording every keystroke you make. Now, references to the same software have been discovered in Apple’s iOS. It’s gimped, but it’s there.
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Holy data privacy scandal! Over the last week the news that Carrier IQ has been tracking millions of smartphone users without their knowledge has ballooned into a full-blown clusternut. Carrier IQ, huh? Sounds nefarious. But what exactly does it do? And why should you care?
HTC has reached out to us with an official statement on why Carrier IQ, i.e. the hidden software lurking and spying on you, was on HTC phones in the US. According to them, it’s not HTC’s fault at all! It’s the stupid US carriers who require Carrier IQ.
