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 s

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 now) will be

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 <a href="http://w

Sprint “Disabling Use” Of Carrier IQ On Affected Devices

Just a day after Minnesota Senator Al Franken published reports on <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/16/att-sprint-samsung-and-htc-weigh-in-on-their-use-of-carrier-iq/">how carriers and device v

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 our pers

Don’t Blame The IQ, Blame The Carrier

You couldn't swing a cat this week without hitting a story about <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/carrier-iq/">Carrier IQ</a>, which (if you have somehow avoided this information) is a bit of softw

Carrier IQ, Samsung, And HTC All Facing Class Action Lawsuits

To say that <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/carrier-iq/">Carrier IQ </a>has been going through a lot is a bit of an understatement, and it looks like things are only getting worse. <a href="http:/

Apple: We Don’t Use Carrier IQ… In Most Of Our Products… Anymore.

The tech world is up in arms this week about <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/01/carrier-iq-how-to-find-it-and-how-to-deal-with-it/">Carrier IQ</a>, the mobile data logging software that comes

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 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/11/22/android-researcher-hit

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 detectin

Carrier IQ Retracts Their C&D, Apologizes To The Android Researcher They Hassled

Yesterday afternoon, we <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/11/22/android-researcher-hit-with-cd-after-dissecting-monitoring-software/">wrote about an Android developer</a> who'd received a cease-and

Android Researcher Hit With C&D After Dissecting Monitoring Software

Android security researcher Trevor Eckhart has recently found himself in some hot water after <a href="http://androidsecuritytest.com/features/logs-and-services/loggers/carrieriq/">performing a deep d