This is like saying it's OK to have a backdoor installed on your phone as long as it isn't being used. Is that really ok with you? People who live in the "1st world" may not feel government surveillance is a problem, but have a look at the 3rd world and see what's possible. It may be coming to a theater near you.
This is really a joke of an argument. If government spying is what your trying to avoid by making such a big deal out of carrier IQ because the TV told you to... then why are you even using a cell phone at all? All your communications on that device are as secure as a sandwich warped in plastic. But now, because the TV and internets are talking about one specific avenue of possible penetration, (like talking about a particular hole in a colander) your all worked up.
All your data is already flowing through your carrier, they need no back door. The fact you would trust your carrier with every word said to every number called, every text message and every bit of data you move, but not some obscure analytic tool is near comical.
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I have nothing to hide.
BUT...
I am not ok with my right to privacy being violated, whether the government, authorities or anyone else says I have the right or not. I will fight to keep what I see as my inalienable rights.
I see it like not allowing us to have locks on our doors. Or shades on our windows.
But why do you see it that way? Because TV or some blog told you to? Because you just like to be outraged? The carriers already have way more access to your info. No one said you can't lock, hide or make more secure your data and communications. Step one would be not using Android, maybe the most insecure mobile platform around. There are plenty of steps you can take to make yourself more secure if you feel the need, no one has taken anything from you that I can see.
If yall are as worried about privacy as you say, CIQ is the least of your worries.
Thanks for debunking the "nothing to hide" POV. I believe that many people who think government surveillance isn't a problem because they're not engaging in criminal activity would be very, very upset to find themselves being surveilled. Having nothing to hide is not the same as placing no value on personal privacy.
Seriously WTF, you guys must be like 16 watching lots of TV. I mean, I agree with what you've said here, I just don't think a diagnostic tool on a mass produced out of the box piece of hardware comes really close to that level.
Yeah, people should have been notified, and there is probably something buried in your contract agreement about it. I just have trouble buying this was designed and implemented as a backdoor spying solution... even harder to swallow its part of some NSA program and CIQ is a front.
Its the carriers wanting to collect as much information as possible about how their networks preform in the wild, so they could make them better than the competitor and make more money... in that desire for more and more info I think they got greedy and said, we'll just stick CIQ in the core, and not say anything about, that way no one can opt out and we'll have access to all that network data.
Is that an issue, yeah, I don't like it, but thats one reason I root and run custom ROMs. But, don't forget, by doing that your also trusting whoever wrote the ROM not to have stuck something nasty inside it.
