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For many of us, our smartphones are our lifelines. They are our address books and our email in-boxes, our cameras and our music playlists. We use them for work and for intensely personal business, so it's more than a little creepy to know that software pre-installed on our phone could be keeping track of -- and sharing information about -- our every move. 

The Carrier IQ controversy started when security researchers discovered that, on some phones, it was acting as much more than the diagnostic tool it was supposed to be. Android developer Trevor Eckhart added fuel to the fire when he wrote a blog post detailing the kinds of things the software was keeping track of -- things like your incoming and outgoing text messages, the websites you visit when you use your smart phone's browser, and even the phone numbers you dial.