And now in a delightful new instalment of a series I just made up right now — Why Isn’t This Illegal? — we have an employer allegedly firing a woman for not wanting to be tracked after-hours on her work phone.
Carrier IQ, root-level software that tracks every action many Android phones take is creepy and scary, and there’s nothing you can do about it. But the US Senate can, and Senator Al Franken just sent the company a nastygram.