Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Video posted proving Android phones record you illegally

As the title says really scary stuff. Everything done on an Android phone or that it is used for is recorded and sent to some "company" in California. Not kool. Make sure to watch the video though skip to 5 mins in where things get juicy.

The company told Wired.com last week that Carrier IQ’s wares are for “gathering information off the handset to understand the mobile-user experience, where phone calls are dropped, where signal quality is poor, why applications crash and battery life.” The company denies its software logs keystrokes. Eckhart’s 17-minute video clearly undercuts that claim. Every button you press in the dialer before you call,” he says on the video, “it already gets sent off to the IQ application. From there, the data — including the content of  text messages — is sent to Carrier IQ’s servers, in secret.

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