IS YOUR CELLPHONE TAPPED?

Frightening......... if true........................!
Another COE?


Josh Levy

Internet Campaign Director, Free Press

Is Your Cell Phone Spying on You?
Posted: 12/ 1/11 02:31 PM ET
www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-levy/phone-s...ology_b_1123726.html

Are you being watched?

An independent researcher just discovered a hidden application that records what millions of people write, view and search for on their mobile phones. It sends all of that data to a company no one's ever heard of. And we have no idea what that company is doing with our information.

Sounds like 1984. But it's happening in 2011.

Earlier today, Sen. Al Franken demanded answers from the company, Carrier IQ, calling its technology "deeply troubling." We now need a full investigation.

Carrier IQ is working with mobile phone manufacturers and cellphone carriers to install its spying software on Androids and iPhones, and it may be on models made by BlackBerry, Nokia and other manufacturers.

Researcher Trevor Eckhart exposed the privacy breach in a shocking video that shows how Carrier IQ secretly records actions that you take on your phone -- numbers that you dial, letters that you press when texting or searching the Web, menu buttons that you push -- and sends it all back to Carrier IQ headquarters.

There's no way to turn any of this off without hacking your phone. And mobile phone carriers neglected to inform the public that this software exists in the first place.

The fact that one company is secretly storing away the data of millions of mobile phone users -- without our knowledge, and with no way for us to opt out -- is just incredible. You'd expect this sort of thing from the Chinese government -- not from a company operating in the present-day U.S.

This is not only a privacy problem, it's a democracy problem.

Mobile phones have become the ultimate democracy devices. Activists from Cairo to New York City to Los Angeles have used their phones to broadcast images of pepper-spraying cops, handcuffed journalists and squares full of protesters. We must ensure that the most important movements of our time aren't compromised by data spies with little regard for our free speech or privacy.

Law professor and former Department of Justice attorney Paul Ohm says that Carrier IQ's snoopware "is very likely a federal wiretap," which means that the company could be prosecuted for breaking federal law.

And Sen. Franken said that "Consumers need to know that their safety and privacy are being protected by the companies they trust with their sensitive information...Carrier IQ has a lot of questions to answer."

Free Press agrees. We're calling on Congress and the Department of Justice to investigate Carrier IQ and to get some answers.
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Have been phone less for a week lost all my contact numbers etc and using a R199 job, can't even use the keypad or listen to voice mails

Things like this have been going on for a long time now. Every key stroke you type in on your laptop/PC is also screened, not in the way they claim above but rather having bits of information sent to a group who disseminates it to users who use the info.

Nothing new this really.

Fark that now I'm gonna be exposed as a porn addict ...lol

Umlilo you need to get laid. Very quick

I know mine it taped since i dropped it the other day. But was quite lucky i bought a nearly IPHONE at the local flea market for the price of a PIE and COKE so i wont be taped for much longer.

Flash you know anyone who can help a buddy out?-D

Thats why the odds crimp when we tip a winner here

That was my phone u bought Sly

Not really on-topic, but never mind....has anybody else found that they are now being barraged several times a day with email notifications of lottery wins, refugee handouts, insurance payouts and all sorts of other untold fortunes? Up until a few months ago I might get one a week, now I get four or five every day. I've nearly worn out my "Delete" button.

Most of them are so amateurish that one has to wonder about the gullibility of humankind that anybody could ever fall for them.

Must say no magic but notice that every bank transaction comes through which is maybe a good thing.

I have won or inherited so much money in the last two months that I could buy Brazil.<

Dave how did that happen? (Your iphone being stolen)...