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wraggster
December 3rd, 2011, 22:09
A Cornell University professor is calling the controversial Carrier IQ smartphone software revelations a privacy disaster (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/120211-cornell-carrieriq-253696.html). 'This is my worst nightmare,' says Stephen Wicker, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell. 'As a professor who studies electronic security, this is everything that I have been working against for the last 10 years. It is an utterly appalling invasion of privacy with immense potential for manipulation and privacy theft that requires immediate federal intervention.'"Read on for a grab-bag of other news about the ongoing story of Carrier IQ's spyware.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/2112220/carrier-iq-drama-continues