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A recent discovery by a security researcher, Trevor Eckhart, created a media firestorm around the Mountain View, Calif. startup Carrier IQ. In a Youtube video, Eckhart details how the Carrier IQ software logs every text message, Google search, phone number and URL of visited websites on a variety of smartphones such as HTC and BlackBerry. This development put Carrier IQ under a microscope, and it raises new privacy concerns regarding the collection of personal data from consumers.
It’s no question that text messaging has become an essential part of communication. For UT students, texting is vital for everything from campus safety alerts to organizing study groups. The pervasiveness of texting has led to some common social blunders. Since the cell phone has become somewhat of an additional appendage, situations often go unnoticed in which its use causes inadvertent tension.
A wrecked pick-up truck stood out against the Capitol lawn Wednesday as legislators and members of the media mourned the death of 17-year-old Alex Brown and discussed ways to prevent texting while driving.
After internally assessing its response on Sept. 28 — the day mathematics sophomore Colton Tooley fired 11 rounds of his AK-47 on campus before taking his own life — the University’s Emergency Preparedness department reported about 53,000 students and staff received text message alerts.
However, in many cases users did not receive the text alerts for up to 45 minutes after they were sent. UT officials said congested wireless traffic contributed to the delay.
