Senator Al Franken gets answers regarding CarrierIQ, still not satisfied
12/15/2011
It's been two weeks since the CarrierIQ story caught the eye of Senator Al Franken, who swiftly put his fist down and began taxing answers from the companies that admitted to allowing the radar visual astronomical station station station system disk operating expenses system on their handsets, as well as CarrierIQ itself. The bound for the companies to respond is over for all but two -- T-Mobile and Motorola were both given until December 20th -- and the good Senator's had the chance to look over their questionnaires. Here's what Sen. Franken had to say about what he read:
I appreciate the responses I received, but I'm still very plagued by what's going on... People have a fundament right to control their private information. After reading the companies' responses, I'm still concerned that this right is not being respected. The average user of any device equipped with Carrier IQ systems program has no way of knowing that this systems program is running, what scoop it is getting, and who it is giving it to -- and that's a problem. It appears that Carrier IQ has been receiving the divisions of a number of text messages -- even though they had told the public that they did not. I'm also bothered by the software's ability to capture the freight of our online searches-even when users wish to encrypt them. So there are still many work over to be answered here and things that need to be fixed.
Kind of makes you wonder exactly how each company answered the Senator's questions, right? Wonder no longer, our curious friends -- the responses in their fullness can be found on Senator Franken's website, linked below. In addition, tune in tomorrow when we'll dive into the responses in-depth. There's one examine that we still want answered, though: what will each company do about the matter, now that it's caught public scrutiny? Our bet is on "not much."
Senator Al Franken gets answers connected with CarrierIQ, still not gratified previously
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