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		jellicle on Nov 29, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Security researcher responds to CarrierIQ with vid... Note that under U.S. law, any information you voluntarily relinquish to an entity that is not your ISP has basically zero protection. None, nada. Any law enforcement agency can get every bit of data stored about you by CarrierIQ without ever notifying you, and you don't have a 4th Amendment privacy right in the data.

billybob on Nov 29, 2011 | [–]

Is it considered voluntary if the app is running without your knowledge and can't be turned off?

To me, that's about as "voluntary" as having your house bugged.

cgag on Nov 29, 2011 | [–]

What protection do we get with information given to an ISP?

jellicle on Nov 29, 2011 | [–]

This:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Priva...

which is low, but better than nothing.

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