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Submitted: December 19, 2011 - 9:26am
Last updated: December 22, 2011 - 7:57pm
Last updated: December 22, 2011 - 7:57pm
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Washington Post
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Hayley Tsukayama
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Sprint, which confirmed to Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) earlier this week that it has installed the network diagnostic tool Carrier IQ on 26 million of its handsets, is disabling the software.
In a statement to MobileBurn, a Sprint spokesperson said that the carrier will no longer collect information from Carrier IQ on its handsets. “We have weighed customer concerns and we have disabled use of the tool so that diagnostic information and data is no longer being collected,” Sprint told the Web site, adding that it will look at other options for collecting necessary handset diagnostics.
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