Floyd and Mary Beth Brown Recommend this article   If you are
like us, every day you pick up a smartphone and you send email,
visit with friends on Facebook, send a text message or even log
into your bank's website and pay a bill. These modern day
conveniences have become routine.  We all believe that our
passwords are secure, our data is protected, and life is easier
if we don't have to write a check to pay a bill or dig around
and find a stamp to send a friend a quick note.  But this
morning we are no longer sure. The tech world is in a fury,
which we believe will soon break out into society at large,
about a little-known software program call Carrier IQ. Over the
Thanksgiving weekend a 25-year-old programmer by the name of
Trevor Eckhart posted a video on YouTube which graphically
displays how our naïve beliefs of privacy are just plain wrong.
The video, which lasts 17 minutes and starts slowly because he
methodically goes through the privacy statements on his cell
phone, is frightening. If you watch it,