“Amid what’s snowballing into a major privacy controversy, AT&T, Sprint, HTC and Samsung today confirmed that that their mobile phones integrate a controversial piece of tracking software from a company called Carrier IQ,” Jaikumar Vijayan reports for Computerworld
“Both wireless carriers AT&T and Sprint insisted that the software is being used solely to improve wireless network performance while phone makers HTC and Samsung said they were integrating the software into their handsets only because their carrier customers were asking for it,” Vijayan reports. “T-Mobile said that it, too, uses Carrier IQ’s software.”
Vijayan reports, “Verizon, Nokia and Research in Motion issued categorical denials to Computerworld that their products include Carrier IQ software… In a statement, Android maker HTC said that Carrier IQ is required on its devices by a “number of U.S. carriers.” The company did not say whether the carriers are asking for the software to be integrated into both its Android and its Windows Phone OS devices… A Samsung spokeswoman said the company integrates Carrier IQ into its products at the request of carriers. It did not specify which of its handsets carries the software.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
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