Sprint Disabling Carrier IQ On Its Devices

might not have "used Carrier IQ's software to examine the contents of customer phones...", but that doesn't mean any employee(s) with know-how within the company didn't.

Or illegally by the FBI or other Law Enforcement agencies for that matter.

I think Carrier IQ was initially and still being used as the carriers suggest to help with their network. But I don't trust in the end, thats what it will always be used for. Its a foot in the door. Recently they used Predators for police work, the promise initially to protect the borders from so called terrorist infiltration, see how that goes, already a lie and one being accepted. Same with devices like ezpass, we're using it just as a billing scheme, now, used for speed control, getting warrants from civil suits because my husband is cheating and is driving to his GF's. Thats my fear with C IQ.