The Carrier Is To Be Blamed, Not The IQ

Carrier IQ is a software which is installed on thousands of cell phone devices which allows it to have accession into lots and lots of personal user data. As the developers dropped hints for some months and at last gave its proof on camera, carrier IQ knows about the SMS content, contacts, secure web traffic and other things on the phones of people.

There are some natural questions arising in the minds of people after the buzz about carrier IQ. People are concerned about how the software got in their phone, which phones have it and how do people get rid of it.

The shocking thing is that ire has itself been redirected at carrier IQ themselves. The software was made but it wasn’t you who downloaded it manually on your phone and installed it, it is rather the carrier your phone belongs to, Sprint or whoever it may be, and who is responsible for this act. The problem is crucial and instead of pointing fingers at carrier IQ, people should realize it is Sprint or the other networks using the software should be blamed. The software was made to facilitate things but it is rather the carriers who are putting it to illegitimate use.

The contracts signed by the user were done by the carriers and the handling of the phone was done by them too. Special services and bloatware, branding to the operating system, all was done by the carriers. Who was responsible for calling up the software asking them to be on the phones in the first place? Yes that is right, it was the carriers. Verizon, AT&T and Sprint are amongst the set of carriers to be blamed for breaching your privacy but people haven’t even touched that part yet because all they seem to be concerned about is the software, rather than the root of the problem, the carriers.

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