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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223398/Lawmakers_seek_hearing_on_Carrier_IQ_privacy_issues Computerworld - The Carrier IQ privacy controversy shows little signs of letting up, as three lawmakers today called for a Congressional hearing on the implications raised by the use of the company's software by wireless carriers. Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA), G.K Butterfield (D-NC) and Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent an open letter ( download PDF ) to Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, asking for an investigation of the data collection and transmission capabilities of Carrier IQ's software and similar products. The letter, sent to Upton and two other subcommittee chairs, also asked Congress to find out whether Android phones were sold with security problems that would have exacerbated the problems caused by Carrier IQ's software.

Lawmakers seek hearing on Carrier IQ privacy issues - Computerworld

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Researcher Trevor Eckhart just discovered a hidden application that records everything millions of people write, view and search for on their cellphones. It sends all of that data to a company no one’s ever heard of. And we have no idea what that company is doing with our information.

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EFF takes the fight to Carrier IQ, requests reinforcements -- Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/22/eff-takes-the-fight-to-carrier-iq-requests-reinforcements/ If we didn't love the EFF already, we'd be proposing marriage now that it's managed to reverse-engineer Carrier IQ's pernicious monitoring software. CIQ exists in phones in three parts, the app itself, a configuration file and a database -- where your keystrokes and coded "metrics" are logged before being sent to the company. Volunteer Jared Wierzbicki cracked the configuration profile and produced IQIQ, an Android app that reveals what parts of your activity are being monitored.
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Carrier IQ admits to collecting text messages | Security Threats | ZDNet UK

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2011/12/14/carrier-iq-admits-to-collecting-text-messages-40094645/ Carrier IQ, the mobile intelligence provider at the centre of a US privacy storm, has said it inadvertently collected some SMS messages as the result of a software bug. Carrier IQ has admitted its data-gathering software inadvertently collected user text messages as the result of a software bug. Image credit: YouTube Network operators can use Carrier IQ mobile-data logging software to gather information on customers' network usage . Carrier IQ said on Tuesday that its hard-to-detect software has mistakenly been collecting text messages. "Carrier IQ has discovered that, due to this bug, in some unique circumstances, such as when a user receives an SMS during a call, or during a simultaneous data session, SMS messages may have unintentionally been included in the layer 3 signalling traffic that is collected by the IQ agent," the California-based company said in a technical explanation of its software (PDF).
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Google says does not work with, support Carrier IQ | Reuters

THE HAGUE | Thu Dec 8, 2011 7:14pm GMT THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Google does not work with nor does it support Carrier IQ, the software maker which has been accused of violating millions of mobile phone users' privacy rights, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said on Thursday. Carrier IQ makes software that operators including AT&T and Sprint Nextel install in mobile devices. The software transmits data that Carrier IQ says allows mobile operators to better understand their devices and networks. But it has come under fire following reports that its software collects and transmits potentially sensitive data about phone users. Google's Android smartphone operating system has been associated with Carrier IQ after a hacking expert released a video on YouTube showing his Android-powered HTC running the software. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/12/08/us-google-carrieriq-idUKTRE7B724820111208
Today mobile software company Carrier IQ withdrew (pdf) a bogus legal threat to a security researcher who published an analysis of the company's software, as well as training materials on which he based his research. Last week, Trevor Eckhart published a detailed article pointing out that Carrier IQ's software logs a great deal of information about users' activities without their knowledge. Attempting to suppress his research, Carrier IQ fired off a baseless cease-and-desist demand (pdf) claiming that Eckhart infringed the company's copyrights and made "false allegations" about their software. Eckhart reached out to EFF for help, and we helped him push back against the unfounded threat. As EFF explained in a letter (pdf) to Carrier IQ on Monday, Eckhart's research and commentary is protected by fair use and the First Amendment right to free expression. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/carrier-iq-drops-empty-legal-threat-apologizes-security-researcher

Carrier IQ Drops Empty Legal Threat, Apologizes to Security Researcher | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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US senator seeks answers over Carrier IQ | Security Management | ZDNet UK

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Is Carrier IQ spying on you? | Marketplace from American Public Media

Hidden software in your smartphone might be spying on you. Until an uproar this week, chances are you had never heard of a company called Carrier IQ , but if you own a smartphone, it's possible this little California company has collected lots of information about you. Carrier IQ makes software that has been pre-installed on mobile phones used by millions of consumers. "It is installed by the wireless carriers like Sprint and AT&T," says Chris Soghoian, a security and privacy researcher at Indiana University. "It is insanely difficult to remove. http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/carrier-iq-spying-you
There's plenty of rightful indignation over the revelation that AT&T and Sprint have installed monitoring apps (purportedly to detect network and performance issues) on the millions of cellphones and smartphones they sell, using software from a company called Carrier IQ . But technologies such as Carrier IQ, GM's continued tracking of OnStar customers who had cancelled service, and the tracking software used by some malls over the Thanksgiving holidays are relatively benign compared to what people are not talking about: software and devices that not only monitor individuals but feed that data to insurers and others who could use it to determine rates, deny coverage, and otherwise control people's behavior. This year has seen much teeth-gnashing over anonymized tracking tools such as Carrier IQ, the capture of smartphone location information , and the mall-tracking devices. Despite the uproar, these technologies don't invade individual privacy because they don't know who the person is.

Carrier IQ and Facebook pose the least of your privacy threats | Internet privacy - InfoWorld

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Carrier IQ downplays 2010 patent request - Computerworld

Computerworld - A Carrier IQ executive Monday downplayed the significance of the company's effort to patent a technology it said can help wireless carriers undertake "advertising audience segmentation analysis and content copyright analytics." The company applied for a patent for the so-called Service Intelligence Module Program Product in March, 2010. The application says that the technology can, among other things, combine and analyze "service intelligence modules related to games, financial transactions, and medical diagnostics." The patent application asserts that the technology would let carriers "configure a processor to read content selection, read location data, read application activity, and determine presentation/deselection of advertising messages."
As the Carrier IQ scandal continues to heat up — now with even more lawsuits — the company has chosen to break its silence by speaking with the press. Dieter Bohn and Sean Hollister from The Verge managed to score a big interview with Carrier IQ VP Andrew Coward. Coward reaffirms Carrier IQ’s earlier statements, maintaining that the company isn’t violating any wiretapping laws or doing anything untoward but he also manages to open up a bit more about exactly what Carrier IQ does do and why. The entire interview is well worth the read — and our kudos to Bohn and Hollister for securing such a win — but we were struck by a few aspects of the conversation. 1. The Carrier Is the Customer, Not End Users

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Carrier IQ interview: inside the brave new world of carrier phone tracking | The Verge

So back to the earlier question, you wanted to say that part of what seeing we're exposed in Trevor Eckhart's video is what Carrier IQ is doing, and some of it isn't. When a piece of information is sent to us from the operating system, we do not need it to go through that log file. There is no value to us in reading a debug file, that's just not how our software works. That is not your log file? That log file is not our log file. It's just a standard, Android system logfile.
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Carrier IQ hit with privacy lawsuits as more security researchers weigh in

Carrier IQ, the new poster child for (alleged) smartphone privacy violations, has been hit with two class-action lawsuits from users worried about how the company's software tracks their smartphone activity. Carrier IQ, of course, professes its innocence. But the company has also received some public support from security researchers who say Carrier IQ's software is only tracking diagnostic information and likely is not violating user privacy. It all began recently with a developer named Trevor Eckhart showing how Carrier IQ software seems to record button presses, search queries and the contents of text messages on an HTC Evo Android phone, with no way for the user to shut the tracking activity off. Carrier IQ initially tried to silence Eckhart with a cease-and-desist letter, but ultimately backed down on the threat in the face of opposition from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Why Both You And Carrier IQ Are Pawns In The Fight For Mobile Data | paidContent

There is no question that we love our mobile devices. There’s also no question that we are paranoid about how much of ourselves we pour into the most personal computers ever created, which is why that even if some of the initial concerns were overblown, this week’s flap over the Carrier IQ software shows that the mobile industry still hasn’t learned its lessons about honesty, disclosure, and respect for its users and that those users still don’t understand that their mobile experience is controlled by data-hungry corporations. By now the basics are probably familiar to most anyone who made it past the first paragraph: early in the week Wired published the account of Trevor Eckhart , a 25-year-old system administrator from the great state of Connecticut who created a video outlining his alarm over Carrier IQ , a hidden application on several Android phones.