Customers Sue Cell phone Companies Over The Use Of Tracking Software “Carrier IQ”
Sprint Nextel Corp., AT&T Inc, Apple Inc., and T-Mobile have been sued by the customers of mobile phone over the illegal use of the controversial tracking software Carrier IQ on their handsets violating U.S. computer fraud and wiretapping laws.
The lawsuit released a YouTube report revealing that the Carrier IQ software collects unauthorized information on the Cell phone users’ current locations, Web browsing, applications, and sometimes the keys that have been pressed by them. Four consumers have filed a complaint in federal court of U.S capital on Saturday intending to block the phone makers and individual carriers from using the illegal tracking software.
Carrier IQ logs the user activities and subsequently runs them in the back of handsets. After this YouTube report, Senate Judiciary Committee of U.S has contacted the company in pursuit of information. The committee has alleged that the tracking software violates federal privacy laws, as revealed by a prototype of the complaint submitted by an attorney from the plaintiffs.
