Carrier IQ Faces Probes, Class Actions Over Tracking App

By Christopher Norton (December 2, 2011, 1:40 PM EST) -- Carrier IQ Inc., developer of an application that covertly tracks smartphone users' activities, was hit Thursday and Friday with calls from U.S. lawmakers for probes, new investigations in Europe, and putative consumer class actions in Illinois and California alleging it inappropriately collects data from phone users without permission....

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