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The saga with Carrier IQ’s ability to procure information from your phone continues. AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile have all said that they use Carrier IQ to improve network and handset performance. Some security ‘experts’ have stepped forward to say that this whole thing is way ‘overblown’, that they are really only collecting metrics.

While I agree, that not enough information is known at this point, I would also like to point out that to collect metrics an application should not need to permissions that the Carrier IQ application has. Why would they need the ability to write a contact to your phone or intercept a call? Why would they need the ability to modify (write) the hardware settings on your OS? Why would the need to be able to create a bluetooth connection? They don’t need the permission for these things to collect metrics, they do need it if they want to control your phone from afar.

There are now lawsuits starting, we will see how far they get.

I will say it again, they got caught and are now trying to say ‘We only do <blank>.’ until someone can prove that they are doing more than they admit to. Wait for it…