Carrier IQ: Motorola, T-Mobile detail use

Motorola and T-Mobile responded Tuesday to requests from Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn) for more details on how they use Carrier IQ software.

In its letter to Franken, T-Mobile revealed that it uses the device on some of its premium smartphones including the HTC Amaze and the Samsung Galaxy S II. It estimates that 450,000 of its customers "use devices that contain Carrier IQ's diagnostic software" to collect some information, such as the telephone numbers a user dials and the phone numbers from incoming calls. It does not collect the content of text messages sent or received, the content of e-mails sent or received, the URLs of Web sites visited, information from users' address books or any other keystroke data.

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Felicia Sonmez, William Branigin 22 Dec, 2011


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