Carrier IQ is becoming top story for the week with users as well as developers having concerns towards the hidden curious keylogging software in iOS and Android which comes pre-installed on the handsets and which is considered an unjustified violation of users` privacy.


The tracking software was found hidden in an iOS 4 firmware raising a lot of inquiries and concerns. The reason behind all this snooping around is not entirely clear, but in all cases, users are bemused.

Now that CIQ is raising a red alert, companies are starting to issue statements that will further distance them from the CIQ hot zone. In a statement by Apple, they clarified that they did use CIQ with older softwares, but has been removed from the new software versions iOS 5 and will not be integrated in any future software releases. They also denied recording keystrokes and messages content.

Apple’s Statement:

We stopped supporting CarrierIQ with iOS 5 in most of our products and will remove it completely in a future software update. With any diagnostic data sent to Apple, customers must actively opt-in to share this information, and if they do, the data is sent in an anonymous and encrypted form and does not include any personal information. We never recorded keystrokes, messages or any other personal information for diagnostic data and have no plans to ever do so.

Carrier IQ was only called in to play on iOS devices if you manually turned on the diagnostics option (which, prior to iOS 5, was buried pretty deep in the settings. Beginning with iOS 5, it’s offered up during the initial device setup.)

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