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Schmidt calls Carrier IQ software a keylogger
GOOGLE CHAIRMAN Eric Schmidt has said that Carrier IQ's software is a keylogger and Google does not work with Carrier IQ nor support its software.
Carrier IQ's trackerware has dragged the company through the mud in recent weeks, with claims that it not only tracks what users are doing but records keystrokes as well. Now Schmidt has followed up on Google's previous statements by saying it does work with Carrier IQ and that its software is a keylogger.
Google's Android in particular was shown as the operating system of choice for companies that loaded Carrier IQ's software. According to Schmidt that is due to the openness of Android. He said, "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."
As for Carrier IQ's software, Schmidt didn't hold back. He said, "It's 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."
Carrier IQ has always denied its software logs keystrokes. However Schmidt's comments seems to present keylogging by Carrier IQ as a fact, and one would think Google's lawyers would have checked to make sure Schmidt did not mis-speak.
Google had already said that its Nexus range of smartphones do not come preloaded with Carrier IQ's software. However security researchers have discovered many other Android smartphones running the software. µ
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It is sad the the CEO makes such an off the cuff remark. There have been no public findings from Google Labs to show that Carrier IQ software is a keylogger. Please don't complain to me about the YouTube Video. It has been proven wrong and hang tight as I am sure the researcher will have to figure out how to back out of this at some point.
Read the nineteen page article on the companies website to see what metrics it gathers.
The fact it isn't on googles market place is because it isn't your software, it belongs to the carriers, it is secured by being hidden and embedded. Go read your EULA there should be verbiage about diagnostics data collection and that is exactly what is happening, no Carrier IQ is not the named app but then again they don't need to tell you how, only that you agree to it.
Then Google should have come up with an app that REMOVES Carrier IQ like virus removers does. How difficult can that be for Google ?. At the same time, they can amend the terms of usage to prevent such malicious uses which actually VIOLATES privacy laws in many countries. They can be accessory-to-the-fact if they permit CarrierIQ software on their OS.
Google had already said that its Nexus range of smartphones do not come preloaded with Carrier IQ's software. However security researchers have discovered many other Android smartphones running the software..............
Maybe you need to point out that the "other android smartphones running the software" actually has nothing to do with google but has everything to do with the Carrier of the particular phones. Just so you dont get the i-tards rampaging all over the net claiming google actually maDE CARRIERIQ THXXXX
You've got a line that says, "Schmidt has followed up on Google's previous statements by saying it does work with Carrier IQ". The rest of the article indicates that this should say "does not work with Carrier IQ". However, clearly Carrier IQ works with, or in, Android, although not the other way around.
In other words, if the Carrier IQ app were to go through the standard inspection, developer agreement, and reviewal process through the Android Market (as the rest of the hundreds of thousands of other apps did), Google would have rejected and denied the Carrier IQ app from being available for download through the Android Market for being unethical and not being safe for the public.
Google does not want the Carrier IQ app running on their Android OS across 150 million users.