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by danbee 5172 days ago
> My phone has never, ever, ever had a privacy issue...

Has everyone forgotten about CarrierIQ?

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That was on a small subset of phones and was placed on by specific carriers and manufacturers. But yes, I did forget.
I seem to remember it was on most Android phones, and sent quite a lot of data back to the carriers.
Nope. Look again. Almost nothing was transmitted to carriers. The big scare was the on-phone log. It was only Sprint and a handful of HTC devices.