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Carrier IQ, Samsung, And HTC Face Lawsuit Over Tracking Software
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by EYDER PERALTA
The first lawsuit has been filed against Samsung, HTC and Carrier IQ over software installed on millions of phones that can capture a wide range of data including key strokes.
As we've reported, there's been uproar about the software after a researcher discovered it secretly running on his phone in November. The software, the researcher said, was logging everything from the websites he visited to numbers he called. Yesterday Sen. Al Franken, a Democrat from Minnesota, sent a letter to Carrier IQ demanding answers about its software.
Today, a class-action suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by the law firm Hagens Berman, which represents a group of consumers.
"We believe that CIQ was intercepting and collecting private information from smartphone users that they had no right to monitor or record," Steve W. Berman, the attorney on the suit said in a statement. "Their actions, in concert with phone manufacturers and the various carriers, should raise the hackles of anyone concerned about privacy in the broadest terms."
