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Sprint Orders All OEMs To Strip Carrier IQ From Their Phones

Posted by Soulskill on from the don't-want-the-bad-pr dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a report that Sprint, in an attempt to extricate itself from the Carrier IQ drama, has "ordered that all of their hardware partners remove the Carrier IQ software from Sprint devices as soon as possible." Sprint confirmed that they've disabled the use of Carrier IQ on their end, saying, "diagnostic information and data is no longer being collected." The software is currently installed on roughly 26 million Sprint phones, though the company has only been collecting data from 1.3 million of them.

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  1. Re:Sounds cool by msauve · · Score: 4, Funny

    "what's to say that they don't have a homegrown version of software that does the exact same thing"

    Based on their website, if they did I would feel secure that it didn't work properly.

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  2. Re:Sounds cool by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

    And even if they didn't use CarrierIQ, what's to say that they don't have a homegrown version of software that does the exact same thing?

    If Verizon tried to home brew software as complex as CarrierIQ, their phones wouldn't even boot up.

    Not a chance.

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