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Carrier IQ and the US' Escalating Privacy Risk Level
Posted by: Peter S. Vogel December 14, 2011 02:52 PM

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It seems that every day a new crisis hits the news about our privacy, but not many news stories are as astonishing as the recent revelation by a 25-year-old researcher about the Carrier IQ software that is installed on most modern Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones. Carrier IQ software collects massive data from these devices, then “correlates and aggregates the data for near real-time system monitoring and business intelligence” for phone operators and manufacturers, ostensibly to improve their services.

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