Carrier IQ
AT&T Snaps Up Assets, Talent From Carrier iQ, Phone Monitoring Startup Goes Offline
Remember Carrier iQ? In the years before Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA, the name and its software became synonymous with creepy, unseen monitoring of everything that you do on a smartphone…
Sprint’s Epic 4G Touch Gets Stripped Of Carrier IQ
Sprint has been spending the past few weeks quietly pumping out software updates that remove Carrier IQ from affected devices, and now it looks like Sprint’s flagship Android device (for…
HTC And Sprint Working On Software Updates That Remove Carrier IQ
Most of the furor surrounding the Carrier IQ diagnostic software has wound down by now, but that doesn’t mean that the companies involved have already forgotten. HTC has confirmed to…
Sprint “Disabling Use” Of Carrier IQ On Affected Devices
Just a day after Minnesota Senator Al Franken published reports on how carriers and device vendors use Carrier IQ, Sprint seems to be taking steps to distance themselves the mobile…
AT&T, Sprint, Samsung, And HTC Weigh In On Their Use Of Carrier IQ
Senator Al Franken pressed certain members of the wireless industry over two weeks ago for answers about their use of Carrier IQ, the controversial monitoring software that sparked fears that…
You couldn’t swing a cat this week without hitting a story about Carrier IQ, which (if you have somehow avoided this information) is a bit of software installed on millions…
Carrier IQ, Samsung, And HTC All Facing Class Action Lawsuits
To say that Carrier IQ has been going through a lot is a bit of an understatement, and it looks like things are only getting worse. PaidContent reports that two…
Apple: We Don’t Use Carrier IQ… In Most Of Our Products… Anymore.
The tech world is up in arms this week about Carrier IQ, the mobile data logging software that comes pre-installed (and rather well hidden) on an increasingly huge number of…
Carrier IQ: How To Find It, And How To Deal With It
By now, you’ve probably heard all about Carrier IQ, the mobile logging software that an intrepid researcher named Trevor Eckhart found lurking on a number smartphones from multiple manufacturers and…
Carrier IQ Video Shows Alarming Capabilities Of Mobile Tracking Software
You may be aware of the growing controversy surrounding Carrier IQ, a piece of software found pre-installed on Sprint phones that, according to developers who have investigated, is capable of…
Carrier IQ Retracts Their C&D, Apologizes To The Android Researcher They Hassled
Yesterday afternoon, we wrote about an Android developer who’d received a cease-and-desist letter from Carrier IQ, a company whose Android software he’d been investigating. This morning, under the light of…
Android Researcher Hit With C&D After Dissecting Monitoring Software
Android security researcher Trevor Eckhart has recently found himself in some hot water after performing a deep dive into mobile tracking software from a company called Carrier IQ. He managed…
