Google's Schmidt strikes Carrier IQ off Xmas card list
'Appears to be software that's not very good for you'
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Google chairman Eric Schmidt has criticised Carrier IQ and added that the company doesn't work with the controversial software maker.
"Android is an open platform, so it's possible for people to build software that's actually not very good for you, and this appears to be one," Schmidt said, according to Reuters.
Late last month an Android app coder published what he described as conclusive proof that millions of smartphones were secretly monitoring key presses, the mobiles' geographic locations and messages sent to users.
Carrier IQ is "a key-logger, and it actually does keep your keystrokes, and we certainly don't work with them and we certainly don't support it," Schmidt added.
Schmidt was speaking on Thursday at an internet freedom conference in The Hague in the Netherlands. The Google-sponsored event was also attended by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who once again warned against restrictions applied to internet access by various countries around the world.
“When ideas are blocked, information deleted, conversations stifled and people constrained in their choices, the internet is diminished for all of us,” Clinton said, according to the New York Times.
“There isn’t an economic internet and a social internet and a political internet. There’s just the internet,” she added. ®
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“When ideas are blocked, information deleted, conversations stifled and people constrained in their choices, the internet is diminished for all of us,” Clinton said, according to the New York Times.
That's a pretty funny statement considering she's part of the same government which is bringing in the The Stop Online Piracy Act and who routinely shutdown websites that don't agree with their policies or views.
@b166er
Maybe YOU should read more often. The corp-spokes-liar says that CIQ captures keystrokes but that they they don't collect them through their own filter. But he also says that the CARRIER is the one who sets their own filtering policy. He makes no statement about what the carriers filter and collect. If the software captures it the carrier can collect it. You've misinformed yourself based on your own bias toward the corps and against the privacy critics.
@Kane
Google doesn't make the handsets, only the OS. Firmware is produced by the carrier / manufacturer pair.
Say it ain't so!!!
Remember, this is supposed to be the most "open" and "transparent" administration the US has ever had.
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