Carrier IQ, T-Mobile, Sprint, RIM face class-action suits

Joining the growing parade of class-action lawsuits against cellphone software company Carrier IQ, suits have been filed by a group of five California plaintiffs alleging that the company and affiliated wireless carriers and phone makers violated state law by "surreptitiously intercepting communications" of smartphone customers. The plaintiffs are all clients of Century City attorney Susan Yoon, who filed the class-action suits in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Carrier IQ, T-Mobile USA, Sprint Nextel, Motorola Mobility Holdings, Samsung Telecommunications America and BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion Ltd. Each suit alleged that the companies secretly recorded user cellphone activities. The suit also alleges that Carrier IQ's software "records and transmits to defendants keystrokes, content of text messages and passwords."