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Xiaomi has recently been found to collect as much data as it can from its users, regardless of privacy restrictions or settings.
Xiaomi is characterized by offering high quality products, whether they are telephone equipment or hearing aids, passing through a wide range of products that many adore. But it seems that with so much quality sometimes you pay a price that was not expected.
A spy at home
Recently, security firms Cirlig and Tierney disclosed that there is an important Data leak that happens to Redmi Note 8 users and is not from hackers or any third party group. Filtration is done through the same Xiaomi.
What was discovered is that no matter what you do on your Redmi Note 8, Xiaomi collects it and sends them to servers in china belonging to Alibaba, which apparently are rented by Xiaomi. further to be sent also to servers in Russia and Singapore.
But don’t think that information is only collected one way, but this involves everything that is done on the phone:
- Information searches
- Information searches in incognito mode
- Web pages visited
- Messages sent and received
- The music you listen to
- The applications you use
- Applications you install and uninstall
- The files you open and the ones you delete
- Which notifications do you decide to delete and which ones do you decide to see
- Telephone identification and serial number
When the Chinese brand was confronted about this, they ensured that all the information collected is completely confidential. They also flatly denied that information is collected in incognito mode. Added to that they said this data collection is accepted by all users, you know, through contracts that no one reads.
But everything has been shown to actually happen and that by knowing the serial number and ID of each equipment, these data are no longer anonymous. What is this company up to?
Source: Forbes.
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