The U.S. Lawmakers Want to Strengthen the Protection of Mobile Data
The U.S. Congress wants to regulate the use of data on mobile devices. The Chosen Edward Markey filed Monday, January 30, a bill ( . pdf ) called “Mobile Device Privacy Act” (MDPA), which obliges telephone operators and manufacturers of smartphones to show their clients’ s they use a tracking software, type of Carrier IQ. According to the text, the nature of the data collected should also be specified, and users can accept or refuse the transfer of data.
This bill was proposed a few months after a lively debate about spyware, Carrier IQ. In November, a developer specializing in Android, the Google operating system for mobile phones, revealed the existence of a program installed by American service providers on millions of laptops from many manufacturers . The program stores a wealth of information on user activity and transmits them to the ISP.
CarrierIQ, published by the company of the same name, recorded a very large amount of information, ranging from keystroke messages sent, through research conducted via the Internet browser. According CarrierIQ , this software is deployed on more than 141 million handsets, Android phones such as BlackBerry or Nokia phones.
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