Sigue trayendo cola Carrier IQ y su controvertible servicio para la logística de compañías de celulares, pues otra demanda de clase ha sido entablada.
Ahora las firmas Sianni & Straite LLP, Eichen Crutchlow Zaslow & McElroy LLP, y Keefe Bartels L.L.C. Han hecho una demanda de clase en la corte de Delaware en contra de Carrier IQ, T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint, HTC, Samsung, Motorola y Apple en seguimiento a las posible violaciones de privacidad al estas compañías estar involucradas en un servicio que rastrea toda función realizada en algunos Smartphones. Esta demanda se una a la presentada la semana pasada.
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Apple, HTC, Samsung, Motorola, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Carrier IQ Sued in Delaware Federal Court in Cell Phone Tracking Software Scandal
WILMINGTON, Del., Dec. 2, 2011 – The law firms of Sianni & Straite LLP of Wilmington, DE, Eichen Crutchlow Zaslow & McElroy LLP of Edison, NJ, and Keefe Bartels L.L.C. of Red Bank, NJ, have today filed a class action complaint in Federal Court in Wilmington, Delaware related to the unprecedented breach of the digital privacy rights of 150 million cell phone users. The complaint asserts that three cell phone providers (T-Mobile, Sprint and AT&T) and four manufacturers of cell phones (HTC, Motorola, Apple and Samsung) violated the Federal Wiretap Act, the Stored Electronic Communications Act, and the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
The carriers and manufacturers were caught last month willfully violating customers’ privacy rights in direct violation of federal law. A technology blogger in Connecticut discovered that software designed and sold by California-based Carrier IQ, Inc. was secretly tracking personal and sensitive information of the cell phone users without the consent or knowledge of the users. On Nov. 30, 2011, the United StatesSenate Committee on the Judiciary said in a letter to Carrier IQ that “these actions may violate federal privacy laws.” It added, “this is potentially a very serious matter.”
David Straite, one of the attorneys leading the action, noted “this latest revelation of corporate America’s brazen disregard for the digital privacy rights of its customers is yet another example of the escalating erosion of liberty in this country. We are hopeful that the courts will allow ordinary customers the opportunity to remedy this outrageous breach.” Steve Grygiel, co-counsel for the proposed class, agreed: “anyone who cares at all about their personal privacy, or the broader constitutional right to privacy, ought to care and care a great deal about this case.” Barry Eichen added, “today’s comment from Larry Lenhart, CEO of Carrier IQ, that his software is somehow good for consumers starkly demonstrates what is at stake.”
A copy of the Class Action Complaint in Pacilli v. Carrier IQ, Inc. can be viewed on the Firms’ websites at www.siannistraite.com, www.keefebartels.com, and www.njadvocates.com.
Plaintiffs are represented by Sianni & Straite LLP, a Delaware-based litigation firm with a branch office in New York, Keefe Bartels LLC, a New Jersey-based plaintiffs’ rights trial law firm, and Eichen Crutchlow Zaslow & McElroy LLP, a leading plaintiffs firm with three offices in New Jersey.
Carrier IQ y su aplicación, al momento de redactar esto son legales, ya que su servicio se basa en soluciones de logística para el mercado móvil. Pero en realidad si vemos la naturaleza del servicio, puede entenderse que es una violación a tu derecho de privacidad al servicio hacer un log de tus actividades a tu proveedora móvil.
Sprint y AT&T individualmente han admitido que son clientes de Carrier IQ, pero todo es para estrategias internas en sus redes, tal como promete el servicio, pero parece que eso no convencerá al senado de los Estados Unidos, quienes han dado un plazo de hasta el 14 de Diciembre a Carrier IQ de contestar algunas preguntas.
