Carrier IQ: You Know Me, So Let's Talk About You
Recently Trevor Eckhart has published information via video and text about Carrier IQ. It appears that Carrier IQ, self-defined as a leading provider of Mobile Service Intelligence Solutions to the Wireless Industry, has been tracking mobile phones for quite a while. The video Trevor Eckhart posted displays the program recording keys typed, calls made, and everything in between.
If you visit Carrier IQ's website you will sees a proudly placed ticker of handsets currently deployed. With that, I have to wonder, how has the world taken so long to discover them?
The problem with Carrier IQ: users never gave them permission to record their data, nor even permission to be on the devices at all. The company has been off radar until this week. We do not know who they are or their intentions with our data.
It appears some iOS, Android, and Blackberry devices carry Carrier IQ. Apple has announced that they abandoned Carrier IQ at the start of iOS 5. Hence the name, Carrier IQ is believed to have been put on my the carriers, and not the manufacturers, although the manufacturers had knowledge of it.
Ty Summers
Reader Comments (3)
Nice article, but I recognize the image from Engadget.
That is because it is from Carrier IQ's website. If you compare my pic to theres it's a different number. You can see the number ticker increasing every second on Carrier IQ's website : http://www.carrieriq.com/
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