Apple Says 'We Stopped Supporting Carrier IQ With iOS 5'

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Posted December 1, 2011 at 9:01pm by Shalom Levytam

Apple has just issued a statement on the Carrier IQ debacle saying that although it used Carrier IQ in the past, it recently stopped supporting it and will completely remove it in the future, according to AllThingsD.

"We stopped supporting Carrier IQ with iOS 5 in most of our products and will remove it completely in a future software update. With any diagnostic data sent to Apple, customers must actively opt-in to share this information, and if they do, the data is sent in an anonymous and encrypted form and does not include any personal information. We never recorded keystrokes, messages or any other personal information for diagnostic data and have no plans to ever do so."

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Notch - December 2, 2011 at 5:24pm

This is all going to seem really petty when we find out how the deeply the NSA tracks everything. Lol, they wanted to sell us stuff? The NSA is making lists.

Sebbo - December 2, 2011 at 1:56pm

I don't believe that for 1 second. Utter bollocks they never ever recorded key strokes! I bet they did, just they don't now.

Russell - December 2, 2011 at 7:54am

Read the article, not the title. Apple said it had stopped supporting Carrier IQ in MOST of its products. This means they are still using it!! If Apple is so great, why did they use Carrier IQ up until 5.0 and not tell their customers about it? Let's not forget what happened in April this year when security researchers found IOS4 tracked users location. "The decision to track and store a users' location in a local file is highly unusual. Mr. Warden and Mr. Allan searched for similar code in Google Inc.'s (GOOG) open source smart phone/tablet operating system, Android, but could not find one." http://www.dailytech.com/Apple+is+Tracking+iPhone+iPad+Users+Location+Easily+Mapped+With+OS+X+App/article21429.htm Apple has a lot of business because their customers are so ignorant and believe every excuse Apple puts out.

Real abe - December 2, 2011 at 5:13am

That's how you solve the issue apple. And that is why they have my business and are number 1 in the industry.