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Old November 9th, 2011, 12:55 AM
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Default Your Wireless Carrier Probably Is Selling Your Personal Info - But Does it Matter?

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What you may not know is that major phone companies--AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon included--then sell your data to third-party companies for the purposes of targeted marketing and sales.

Related: Verizon to Start Tracking Your Mobile Information
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Old November 16th, 2011, 02:40 PM
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http://www.xda-developers.com/androi...on-carrier-iq/
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The Android developer who raised the ire of a mobile-phone monitoring company last week is on the attack again, producing a video of how the Carrier IQ software secretly installed on millions of mobile phones reports most everything a user does on a phone.

Though the software is installed on most modern Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones, Carrier IQ was virtually unknown until 25-year-old Trevor Eckhart of Connecticut analyzed its workings, revealing that the software secretly chronicles a user’s phone experience — ostensibly so carriers and phone manufacturers can do quality control.

But now he’s released a video actually showing the logging of text messages, encrypted web searches and, well, you name it.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...logging-video/

+ "BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps" : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11...ne_spying_app/
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