Keynote: Spies in our pockets? Lessons from the Carrier IQ scandal about privacy and transparency on contemporary cellular networks

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Presented at Mobile Security Technologies 2012 by

Peter Eckersley

"Carrier IQ is a data collection platform that wireless carriers and mobile handset manufactuers use to obtain data about network conditions, and the way their customers use their phones/pocket computers. Carrier IQ became extremely controversial in 2011, when researchers noticed that deployments of the software were observing and in some cases uploading a wide range of sensitive personal information on people's phones. This talk will discuss the complex architecture and variants of the Carrier IQ stack, and some of the lessons from the Carrier IQ scandal about privacy and transparency in the world of cellular networks."