AT&T, Sprint Say Customers AGREED To Creepy Phone Tracking

Sunday, December 18, 2011 AT&T, Sprint Say Customers AGREED To Creepy Phone Tracking More than two weeks ago, security researcher Trevor Eckhart posted a video about Carrier IQ, an obscure software installed on approximately 150 million smartphones. The 17-minute video sparked a firestorm not only because it alleged the software logged numerous details about users' activities, but also because it did so without their knowledge. But this week, two wireless carriers that use Carrier IQ's software said customers should not have been surprised that some of their activities were being tracked. GOOGLE MVP CLUB WATCH: Black Hole To Devour Huge Gas Cloud Could RIM's Survival Mean Abandoning The BlackBerry? A Big Week For Listening To Music Online WATCH: The 9 Most Popular Viral Videos Of The Week BLOG POSTS Harald Haas: Best of TEDTalks 2011, # 7: Wireless Data From Every Lightbulb Soon when you switch on the light in the morning, that light will beam the latest news to your smartphone. From the breakfast table, you will be able to send emails through the table light. Phil Simon: 10 Technology and Business Trends for 2012 It's that time again -- time to look around the corner and make predictions about the new year. Here are 10 technology and business trends that will affect businesses and consumers alike in the coming year. John Giacobbi: Snow White & the Seven Cyber-Scams If you don't want your festive holiday cheer to go south quicker than Rick Perry's presidential ambitions then here are a few useful tips as to the Do's and Don'ts of online shopping. Dan Rather: I've Discovered Facebook You know the world has changed in a fundamental way when you look at many of the news stories this year and realize that they had something remarkable in common: social media. Josh Levy: The Top 10 Ways Mobile Carriers Tried to Screw Us in 2011 AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon do so many bad, annoying and anti-consumer things that it's almost impossible to document it all.

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