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A security researcher and systems analyst says a company's software is secretly logging the keystrokes of Android phone users, as well as those on some BlackBerrys and Nokia devices, although the company that makes the software denies the claims.

The matter has grown so contentious that the company,Carrier IQ, threatened researcher Trevor Eckhart of Connecticut with legal action, but then backed off and apologized after the Electronic Frontier Foundation recently intervened.

 

Full story: http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/30/9122334-researcher-secret-software-tracks-phone-users

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