Inside Carrier IQ-gate.
A scandal erupted this week around the discovery of secret software running on most smartphone handsets in the U.S. that tracks and logs personal activity on the phones.
The software is marketed to carriers and handset makers as a diagnostic tool that can be used to improve phone service. Critics say it’s a hard-core violation of privacy. And the critics are right.
A security researcher named Trevor Eckhart posted a video Tuesday showing Carrier IQ software harvesting personal data without permission or even the option to turn it off.
When you learn the ugly details (on the other side of the link), you’ll see that we can’t trust Carrier IQ. We can’t trust the carriers and handset makers that use Carrier IQ. And we can’t even trust the companies that don’t use Carrier IQ.
Here’s what you need to know:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222371/Inside_Carrier_IQ_gate
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