Carrier IQ revealed to be installed on 26 million Sprint phones and 900,000 AT&T phones

Documents related to a Senate inquiry into Carrier IQ and its smartphone software reveal that Sprint is by far the company’s biggest carrier client in the United States. Sprint stated in a letter to Senator Al Franken, which is now public record, that Carrier IQ software is installed on more than 26 million of its handsets.�A similar letter from AT&T states that the mobile tracking software is installed on 900,000 AT&T phones, but the carrier said it is only collecting data from approximately 575,000 of them.�Both companies reaffirmed earlier statements claiming they only use Carrier IQ software for diagnostic purposes and not to gather private user data or to track subscribers.�”Sprint has not used Carrier IQ diagnostics to profile customer

Source: http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/16/carrier-iq-revealed-to-be-installed-on-26-million-sprint-phones-and-900000-att-phones/

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