MinnPost: Franken questions firm tracking smartphone users
Sen. Al Franken has called on a software developer specializing in "mobile service intelligence" that is said to track even minute details about consumers' smartphone usage to detail exactly what data it tracks and how it uses it.
Earlier this week a researcher found that a software called Carrier IQ, embedded in Nokia, Android and Research in Motion smartphones, is logging and potentially transmitting users' data related to everything from when the phone is turned off and on to which websites they were visiting and topics they were searching.
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