Summary: Apple has issued a statement clarifying reports that it will remove carrier IQ completely in a future software update.
Carrier IQ, the mobile phone logging software that is able to transmit data back to carriers, Apple has now stopped supporting the Carrier IQ with iOS 5 in most of its products such as the iPhone 4S and that it will completely remove the software in a future updates.
The complete statement is as follows :
We stopped supporting CarrierIQ with iOS 5 in most of our products and will eliminate it completely in a future updates on software. With any diagnostic data directed to Apple, customers must actively opt-in to share this info, and if they do, the data is sent in a nameless and encoded from and does not include any personal info. We not ever record personal info or messages or keystrokes for diagnostic data and we don’t have plans to do so.
Earlier reports are the evidence of that Carrier IQ has been able to seizure information more significantly, including keystrokes and other extremely sensitive info, on Android than on iOS.
Researches on Carrier IQ’s functionality on iOS says that any transmission of info has been limited to phone call and locality info, but as per todays issued statement by Apple suggests that the company has even stopped using that info through Carrier IQ, even though company itself collects their own anonymized and encrypted information from devices except users have turned off the diagnostics reporting functionality.
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