Have you ever heard of Carrier IQ? It is kind of explains itself in the name. It takes keystrokes from your phone, and uses them to have cell phone diagnostics and improve your cell phone provider. But as a Verizon Wireless employee said on twitter (you can see it here) He said,
We do not add Carrier IQ to our phones. We do not use other similar software on our devices.
According to Apple, they do not. A website called AllthingsD got some pretty admitting words out of Apple. Here is the direct quote from AllThingsD.
Apple said,
“We stopped supporting Carrier IQ 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.”
So be on the lookout for new updates that completely obliterate Carrier IQ in iOS.
Quote Source: All Things Digital
Source: MacRumors
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