Cellphone carriers deny using Carrier IQ spyware to snoop on us
The mobile world is ablaze over a discovery by Android developer
Trevor Eckhart. He found a piece of software secretly installed
on his smartphone called Carrier IQ that watches just about
everything. Carriers are now stumbling to avoid a potential
privacy catastrophe across every major mobile platform.  In a
nutshell, Carrier IQ is a piece of third party software that is
virtually undetectable and runs automatically in the background
analyzing every keystroke, email, text, photo, call, location,
and URL visited on your smartphone. Eckhart discovered it on an
HTC smartphone running Android, but it appears iPhones (although
it's not nearly as serious as on Android and can be turned off)
are not devoid of Carrier IQ either. Apple says it stopped using
Carrier IQ since iOS 5 and will remove all traces of it in a
future update.  Naturally, Eckhart published everything in a
YouTube video, but not before Carrier IQ went after him. Eckhart
enlisted the