CarrierIQ Hires Former Verizon Counsel As Chief Privacy Officer

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday May 9, 2012 @12:55AM from the throw-a-few-executives-at-it dept.

Trailrunner7 writes, quoting Threat Post: "Carrier IQ, a startup heavily bruised last fall by harsh criticism of its handset diagnostic software, today announced it's hired a high-profile lawyer as its Chief Privacy Officer. Magnolia Mansourkia Mobley, a CIPP and former Verizon executive, will be tasked with quickly broadening the company's focus on consumer privacy. She also was named the company's General Counsel. The company became the flashpoint in a heated controversy after initial reports its analytics software, embedded in some 150 mobile phones, was capable of gathering a great deal of personal data without the customer's consent."

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Re:Google Analytics by ScreamS · 2012-05-09 01:13 · Score: 0, Troll

get noscript or an equivalent extension and block it, waiting for legislation that benefits the common man has never ever been a good idea in the history of mankind.
Does this mean that I should be always looking for if someone is going to kill me, rape me, run over me, scam me or do other bad things to me?

Frankly, I don't want to live in that kind of world. We have laws for good reasons.