Carrier IQ, the creepy monitoring software on 150 million or so Android devices, Nokias, and iPhones, may constitute a massive violation of privacy laws. The FTC and FCC are looking into it. In the meantime, enjoy your "smart" phone!

The FBI has files from a phone-monitoring company whose notorious software was on iPhones, Android phones, Nokias and BlackBerries. But since the files are being used "for law enforcement purposes," the feds won't talk about their contents. So you can't know what secrets the feds have gleaned from your phone, because that's a secret.

You may well read today about how "Carrier IQ" spy software has been discovered in Apple's iPhones and iPads. The situation isn't nearly as bad as it might sound, but it never hurts to revisit your phone's privacy configuration.

If The Social Network taught us anything, it's that no technology feels real until it's effectively rendered in moving pictures. That's why this new video of the software tracking every keystroke on most Nokia, Android and BlackBerry devices is so important.