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"As controversy continues to swirl around Carrier IQ, which stores data and sends it to cellphone service providers, Apple has confirmed that it stopped supporting the software in iPhones \u2014 and will remove it completely from future iPhone software.  \n\"We stopped supporting Carrier IQ with iOS 5 in most of our products and will remove it completely in a future software update,\" Apple said in a statement to All Things D. \"With any diagnostic data sent to Apple, customers must actively opt-in to share this information, and if they do, the data is sent in an anonymous and encrypted form and does not include any personal information. \n\"We never recorded keystrokes, messages or any other personal information for diagnostic data and have no plans to ever do so.\"\nSo how do you block Carrier IQ right now, if you're using iOS 5 or greater on your iPhone? Follow our simple guide:\n\n\niPhone Diagnostic Data\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Find the Settings app\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. General\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. About\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Diagnostics &amp; Usage (to find it, scroll down to the bottom)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Select \"Don\u2019t Send\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn short, here's how to stop data from being automatically sent:Settings App &gt; General &gt; About &gt; Diagnostics &amp; Usage &gt; Don't Send\nFor Android users, there's an app for you to find out if Carrier IQ is on your phone. Here's how to remove it manually. \nThe irony of this situation: your cellular provider already gathers reams of data about where you're going, what websites you're accessing, who you're texting, and a lot more. Keeping diagnostic data from being sent to the cellular provider is not actually going to give you much more privacy than you already give up by using a smartphone.\nThe problem with this little piece of software that's baked into iOS is that it's storing a small amount of that data on your iPhone itself, which could be mined and looked at by nosy people doing forensics on your handset. \nBut if you're not careful about covering your tracks, prying eyes can also see your browser history, texts you've sent and received, calls you've made, location data and a lot more. \nAccording to security experts and Carrier IQ who spoke to CNET, the purpose of Carrier IQ is to gather data so cellular companies can diagnose network problems. So if everyone disables data uploading, carriers will have a harder time with network upkeep. \nWill you be blocking Carrier IQ \u2014 or is it a lot of fuss over nothing? Let us know in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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