You love Google Search on your Android phone because it makes it quicker. Your Android phone remembers your most frequently used search terms – wow!
You enjoy chatting now and then from Google Talk from your Android phone while you are on the go. And next time you launch Google Talk to chat, you do not need to enter your password and user ID – isn’t it convenient?
Only if you would know that the convenience comes at the expense of your privacy. Yes, you are simply compromising security of your data as the Android platform leaks all your account credentials, your most frequently used Google search queries. And the Android platform is not alone, the handset manufacturers and the carriers are involved in this game of ‘making user experience fast and effortless for you’. They use this secret software called Carrier IQ that claims to provide “…Wireless Carriers and Handset Manufacturers unprecedented insight into their customers’ mobile experience.”
The software is installed in the deepest core of your phone that you will not be able to know where this application is placed, how this application is working and how to uproot this software. The application placed between applications in your phone and you in order to be able to intercepts all your activities from addresses of websites you browse, passwords you use for e-mail and chat discussions. However, the company has thwarted the claim by saying that “we are counting and summarizing performance, not recording keystrokes or providing tracking tools”.
Well, then what can you do to ward off this spyware from your Android phone?
Well, unless you are an expert and certified black-belt hacker (you wish you could be before you let all go, right?), you cannot d much to opt out this software. Well, then the only solution is not to install a custom ROM. Users must be given full information about the software’s actions so that they have choices to opt in or opt out as they choose to do. However, following video will five you smart tips on removing this spying software.
