Carrier IQ, Samsung, HTC named in class action suit

Two new victims have been sucked into the growing CarrierIQ click tracking scandal. Handset manufacturers Samsung and HTC have been named in a class action suit along with CarrierIQ, alleging that the company is in violation of federal wiretapping guidelines for illegally intercepting communications from people’s phones.

The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Chicago seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages on behalf of all U.S. residents who own handsets running the software. Erin Janek owns an HTC phone and is the plaintiff in the suit, which alleges that her data was being surreptitiously monitored when it was not publicly available. The suit further claims that she did not grant authorization to CarrierIQ, or HTC to access her information.