Carriers Accidentally Collect Text Messages, Intentionally Gather Visited URLs

摘要

A bug in Carrier IQ software captured cellphone users' SMS text messages, Carrier IQ said nlast week. By design, the software collects numbers dialed, URLs visited, and locations of ndropped calls, among other things, it said in a letter released to Senate Privacy Subcommittee nChairman Al Franken, D-Minn. Carrier IQ and the carriers and handset makers that have nadmitted being Carrier IQ customers said the data collection software is a diagnostic tool that ndoes not violate the Electronic Communications Privacy Act or the Computer Fraud and Abuse nAct.