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Carrier IQ tracking Android phones: the story so far | The Verge
Carrier IQ provides telemetry to cellular carriers and manufacturers, and according to the company itself, its software is pre-installed on over 141 million phones. Now, a security researcher claims that the same software is monitoring every single key you press on your smartphone, reading your SMS, and logging much of the personal data you transmit, too — all with an app that you can’t remove. 

This is… alarming.