Sprint decides to remove Carrier IQ from users’ devices

There are many features on the cell phones that users pay for, and don’t need but in return, affect their privacy because the providers use it without their consent to gather important information they probably share with the federal intelligence. The carrier IQ software incorporated to the Sprint phones is tracking software capable to record every call, every keystroke the user is typing, every text message the user is sending or receiving. Now Sprint has decided to remove Carrier IQ from all devices through a maintenance release process that will be done over-the-air software update process. The reason advanced for this removal is that Sprint is no longer used the tool. The providers, Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile have claimed using the information collected by the software to quell ongoing concerns. Now Carrier IQ reached a level that U.S government members have asked the House of Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Fred Upton to open an investigation. That is on example of how your own money can cause you a big trouble.