Updated with a response from Carrier IQ.
Want to know if Carrier IQ, the dialer- and location-sniffing software installed in millions of phones, is being used by the FBI for law enforcement investigations? The FBI won’t reveal much about the controversial application. And why not? Because, the Bureau says, doing so might interfere with law enforcement investigations.
That’s the strange and potentially revealing logic the FBI used earlier this month to deny a Freedom of Information request filed by Michael Morisy, a blogger for the website Muckrock.com. After a video surfaced that seemed to show the software logging keystrokes and monitoring data traffic on the more than 140 million phones on it’s installed by default, Morisy had asked the Bureau for any “manuals, documents or other written guidance used to access or analyze data gathered by programs developed or deployed by Carrier IQ.” (more on forbes.com)
