Understanding Carrier IQ Technolog

What Carrier IQ Does and Does Not Do
December 12th 2011
Introduction
Following recent public discussions and questions on the use and deployment of Carrier IQ, this
document is designed to provide answers and share how our software is deployed and used.
We want to thank Trevor Eckhart for sharing his findings with us through a working session that helped
us to identify some of the issues highlighted in this report. We also want to thank security researcher
Dan Rosenberg for his thorough analysis and industry recommendations and the cooperation of
Network Operators in assisting our investigations.
In this document, we want to let consumers to know exactly what it is that our software does, the
security measures we have in place, and our commitment through our software design and processes to
protecting consumers’ privacy while improving consumers’ experience.
This document outlines the following:
 Details of the Carrier IQ solution and how it is deployed
 How the Carrier IQ software – “IQ Agent”- is loaded on mobile devices
 What information is available to Mobile Network Operators from devices
 How data from mobile devices may be used by Carrier IQ’s customers
 How consumer data is protected through this process

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