Technocracy: The Perception of Perfidy

My WND Technocracy column this week is about the debacle over Carrier IQ.

"Transparency" is a punch line in government because our politicians promise it while doing everything in their considerable powers to avoid it.

Carrier IQ is third-party diagnostic software used to transmit data about your phone and network usage to your carrier.  Consumers are up in arms over possible security exploits in the software but, more significantly, they are upset that wireless carriers have been hiding this software on their phones. The companies involved are reacting to varying degrees of terror in the face of customer backlash.

Read the full column here at WorldNetDaily.