by Steve Smith on Dec 1, 11:23 AM
File this one under "It's Going to Catch Up With Us Sometime Soon." As the debate over digital data tracking moves from online behavioral targeting to cell phones, the stakes over the issue get higher for all sides. This is not going to go away. And so another dust-up over the issue comes from independent researcher Trevor Eckhart, who says he has found a commonly used and often invisible app called Carrier IQ that supports Android, Blackberry, Nokia and some tablet devices. Basically, the app can record and confer back to an operator or hardware maker just about anything a …