Robert Mueller Can't Rule Out FBI Obtained Data From Carrier IQ

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/14/robert-mueller-fbi-carrier-iq_n_1148700.html

FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday denied the bureau had ever sought information from the mobile-software company Carrier IQ, but said he could not rule out the possibility it obtained data collected by the controversial software through requests from wireless carriers.

At a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mueller said the FBI had "neither sought nor obtained any information from Carrier IQ in any one of our investigations."

But when pressed by Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) about whether the FBI acquired information from wireless carriers that use Carrier IQ to collect customer data, Mueller said it was possible.

Last month, security researcher Trevor Eckhart sparked controversy over the potential privacy risks of Carrier IQ by posting a video claiming the software logs every text message, Google search and phone number typed on a wide variety of smartphones and reports them to the mobile phone carrier. Carrier IQ is installed on about 150 million smartphones.