We typically don’t traffic with PR, but given the wide-ranging interest in our release of the FBI’s Carrier IQ response, I wanted to share the following e-mail:
Just to clarify all of the media frenzy around the FBI.
Carrier IQ has never provided any data to the FBI. If approached by a law enforcement agency, we would refer them to the network operators because the diagnostic data collected belongs to them and not Carrier IQ.Carrier IQs data is not designed to address the special needs of law enforcement. The diagnostic data that we capture is mostly historical and won’t reveal where somebody is and what they are doing on a real-time basis.
Hope this helps answer some of your questions.
Thanks,
MiraMira Woods
Marketing Communications
Carrier IQ
My question was and is, “Does the FBI have manuals or instructions on how to access Carrier IQ data?”.
bd_
Dec 13, 2011 @ 22:10:44
Perhaps you could try asking for information on whether CIQ data has been used in previous, closed investigations? Obviously if the FBI is investigating CIQ on whether CIQ is breaking privacy laws, they’ll have to redact any information about CIQ itself, so asking about how it’s been used in the past, in cases that are now concluded, might be able to get around that.
Michael Morisy
Dec 14, 2011 @ 10:20:44
Thanks bd_, I’m trying to think of ways to request this that wouldn’t be exempt and that’s a good suggestion.
Nope
Jan 10, 2012 @ 02:57:48
That’s a bullshit response from Carrier IQ.
No matter who the data “belongs to”, if Carrier IQ _holds_ the data, as it appears to, then the access can be sought and obtained from it.
There is no doubt in my mind that Carrier IQ has, or would freely, supply any information which was sort — whether by the FBI or any of the many other US government agencies who spy on their own citizens (and the rest of the world).