What Carrier IQ Does and Does Not Do – A Complete Guide

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You must have heard In respect to the Carrier IQ if you are not living under rocks. Carrier IQ is one boon of a service for all the several cellular expeditions service for various cellular experience which are stored inside various layers of devices that logs several parameters. The bugs that are fix with your device are done by using this device which provides software updates and then improves the cellular networking of your area. Which is done by Companies like Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T, Samsung, HTC & so on.

Nobody actually knew what all Carrier IQ can access and what all it was actually tracking at their end and because of this a frenzy was created. Al Franken & US Senate called the customers of Carrier IQ and Carrier IQ and asked them IN respect to what way the service follows for operations and what all access it possess to user services in their devices.

In the last one day, bigger story on Carrier IQ came out. Though they were not willing to inform users that what they used and how we came to know that they used Carrier IQ.

To get the manuals, documents and various given instructions required for accessing the  data collected by programs created else provided by the Carrier IQ  Reporter of Muckrock News ,Michael Morisy sent a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA). According to one such provision of FOIA the FBI is exempted that the any material which has potential to itrude in the matters in the future of ongoing investigations. Hence the FBI refused to cooperate.

Carrier IQ is completely giving its best to its deal, however yesterday a 19 pages document was released according to which Carrier IQ is found clean and clear on its part of service.

• In the video shown by Trevor Eckhart you will see the Android’s Private Info log files is actually the effect of the Debug settings which should ideally be categorized under vulnerability which remain in production devices. The personal information seen in the video for the purpose of jotting down log messages is not the responsibility of The IQ Agent on the mobile device.
• The content in the multi-media messages (MMS), emails, photos, web pages, audio or video is not acquired else can be forwarded by Carrier IQ. In the document in Exhibit A and Exhibit B can give you the detailed list of what is been actually gathered.
• You are allowed with gathering layer 3 radio messages where the SMS messages are kept inside which allowed by an unintended bug in a diagnostic profile under unique circumstances which are described in the document. The layer 3 signaling data is provided to network operator who send this to the networks are not unencrypted or provided in a form that could be read by us easily in Carrier IQ, its customers or any third party. Carrier IQ & the users immediately took measures to fix the problem after discovering it. But such content is now not being uploaded by Carrier IQ and its Customers.
• To commence an upload a user must enter a particular code of numeric key for IQ agent software and To get identified when the key code is entered IQ Agent Software sends a numeric key pressings to Device. The Carrier IQ is unaware of situations and does not from it has got the transmitted keystrokes Carrier IQ has never intentionally captured this. Carrier IQ has not been asked by any of its customer to collect key strokes and it’s not a key logger as well.
• The specific Diagnostics defined through profiles by a network operator are collected via one device. But the network operators get the Diagnostic info required by them which are given by Carrier IQ for each network.

So here it is a full report via Carrier IQ and it hopes that it had cleared all the issues and now appeal for consumer trust so that they know that they are doing righteous stuff.

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