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Is your phone telling the carrier everything you do?

Date: November 30, 2011

Author: Kevin C. Tofel

QUOTE: the XDA-Developer site noticed that a preinstalled mobile app, named CarrierIQ, was logging all smartphone activities with no way to opt out....Although consumers are buying smartphones — and assume they have ownership — are the handsets theirs to do with as they please, without the carriers or handset makers know what they’re doing?

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• Carrier IQ
• Giga Omni Media

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• Abstract Principles
  • Control / Access / Permission
  • Information
    • Truth / Honesty / Lying / Cheating
      • Hide/Mislead
        • Disclosure/Conflicts of Interest
          • Disclosure/Conflict of Interest (Organizational)

• Computers & Information Technology
  • Computer Network Access/Data Flows
  • Computer Security (general)
    • Malware/Viruses
  • Email / Spam / Phone / Wireless / Messaging

• Law & Justice
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    • Privacy: Other
      • Internet/Online (General)

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  • United States of America/USA

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