This is your digital life, and your carrier knows every bit of it

* BlackBerry by choice *
Pretty creepy.

Great read

I worked at a Canadian carrier and even as a second level Mobile/Network support, the amount of data we could pull and see live was daunting. Your mobile is an open book, recording all.

Let's just say it was simple to pick out the dumb @ss dope dealers and p@rn freaks

I have nothing to hide...except my credit card numbers....and my SS#...and my pornographic text messages...and that one night at that one place in that one city...and.......

so as a bb user, does it stand to reason that such data is not as easily deciphered because of RIM's infrastructure ? Im genuinely curious.

Great post btw.

o shizzz... hope they still dont got my teenage years stuff.. prolly do.... :/

Fix the source link :)

Just install LittleBrother and you will see how much location information your Carrier have about your only by carrying your phone with you... [See the CellTower Trace in the app]
http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/17760/?lang=en

Things that make you go hmmmm!!!

The dark side of the information age. You can be certain the same is in place here in North America. And I love the irony that he was born in 1984.

I have nothing to hide, but what can we do?

Thanks for this post. Sort of makes me feel a little silly that I pride myself on knowing every little shortcut in my device Os and barely even think about something like this that is important. As someone who lived in a country during revolution I know how critical this is to those fighting oppression. It is a very "now" issue!

I have been asking for a long time for CrackBerry to have regular articles on security issues. When an app wants access to certain info I never know what to do. I am willing to bet there are those in the CB Nation with knowledge they would be more than willing to share. Lead the way, CB!

I have nothing to hide, but respecting our privacy should be mandatory for every company.

well, holey-how-to-give-away-my-position-by-carrying-a-cell-phone batman, looks like wayne enterprises isn't the only one who can track the joker.

This isn't new to me I remember calling T-Mobile a couple of months back to have my tmo@blackberry.net email password reset, and I was amazed and floored at the amount of data downloads and websites I had visited that the customer service agent read back to me. I couldn't and didn't say a word I was shocked.

While we waited for a confirmation email to be sent to me he just starts to name stuff I had downloaded from the app store, he said he'd never seen someone with as many contacts that I had and actual websites that I had visited.

So yes be aware, and this was a first level customer service person who apparently doesn't need any high level clearence to acess this type of info.

The blacker the berry the sweeter the use...

Jaw dropping amazement!

They do have it but its largely not harmful to the average Joe. It is certainly questionable whether or not they should keep it but with subscribers running into thousands/millions it will rarely be detrimental to any of us specifically.

Don't they need a warrant to do this? Couldn't see the video in this article. The area is blank. Was it censored already?

I am in Canada and watched the video just fine. Maybe it is blocked in your goegraphic region? I run into garbage like that all the time when streaming stuff from the US. The government are corrupt.
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Remember that thing called "Lawfull Access" in Canada? S**t just got real.

Lost for words. This is amazing!