Comments on: Some more news about CarrierIQ http://boingboing.net/2011/12/01/some-more-news-about-carrieriq.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 20:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: nosehat http://boingboing.net/2011/12/01/some-more-news-about-carrieriq.html#comment-1284911 nosehat Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=132467#comment-1284911 That depends on how well the data is packaged and tagged by the client on the phone.  The company has said in its own defense: <blockquote>“Our technology is not real time,” he said at the time. "It's not constantly reporting back. It's gathering information up and is usually transmitted in small doses.” </blockquote> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/30/smartphone_spying_app/" rel="nofollow">source</a> Note of course, this is an absurdly terrible defense.  But it <i>does</i> indicate that they are smart about how they set up their spying operation and how they manage their data. That depends on how well the data is packaged and tagged by the client on the phone.  The company has said in its own defense:

“Our technology is not real time,” he said at the time. “It’s not constantly reporting back. It’s gathering information up and is usually transmitted in small doses.”

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Note of course, this is an absurdly terrible defense.  But it does indicate that they are smart about how they set up their spying operation and how they manage their data.

]]> By: Richard Friedman http://boingboing.net/2011/12/01/some-more-news-about-carrieriq.html#comment-1284893 Richard Friedman Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:14:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=132467#comment-1284893 But consider this: if true and CarrierIQ is receiving all these messages from zillions of Android users in real time, that must be an AWFUL lot of data! And they would probably need an IBM Watson to data mine it with any efficiency. Just keeping up with the constant flood of data would be nearly impossible unless you filtered the data and just grabbed the most important stuff and threw out the rest. I'd like to see some statement about the amount of data per hour they receive from these feeds. Must be astronomical! But consider this: if true and CarrierIQ is receiving all these messages from zillions of Android users in real time, that must be an AWFUL lot of data! And they would probably need an IBM Watson to data mine it with any efficiency. Just keeping up with the constant flood of data would be nearly impossible unless you filtered the data and just grabbed the most important stuff and threw out the rest. I’d like to see some statement about the amount of data per hour they receive from these feeds. Must be astronomical!

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