Carrier IQ faces lawsuits, lawmaker seeks FTC probe

Three lawsuits in United States allege privacy-law violations, a congressman asks Federal Trade Commission to investigate, and activists seek Federal Communications Commission and Justice Department probes of mobile data-collection software. (read more)

"Carrier IQ, which programmer Trevor Eckhart alleges records keystrokes from mobile phones and sends all sorts of personal information off the phone. Carrier IQ denies that and says limited data is gathered for diagnostic purposes only"
"Nokia and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion say they do not pre-install Carrier IQ on their phones, while HTC, Samsung and Motorola say they pre-install it at the carrier's request. Google, meanwhile, says it does not use it on Nexus devices." (read more)


I said:

To all friends... you guys better check your phone to see if the apps installed especially when you used lots of mobile banking or browsing through email, etc whereby lots of username and password being entered and pass around :)...