Xiaomi data leak controversy: Is Xiaomi mobile sending user data to China?

Xiaomi Mobile has fallen into yet ar privacy concern where organisation is reportedly accused of collecting browser data of its users. This is t first time when mobile company was blamed to use user data inappropriately. This time two cybersecurity researchers revealed that Xiaomi was watching much of what he was doing on phone.

Xiaomi records browsing data of its users

Cybersecurity researcher Gabi Cirlig recently told a leading news portal that he was able to find out that Mi Browser on Redmi te 8 was collecting users’ data including visited websites, search queries in Google and or modes. researchers, Gabi Cirlig and Andrew Tierney were able to detect various backdoors in Xiaomi smartphones that help company obtain user data without letting user kw. most interesting thing spotted by Cirlig and Tierney is that tracking continued even when phone’s browser was set to Incognito mode. 

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reports also revealed that even searches on so-called privacy-centric DuckDuckGo web browser which is trusted by many people were being sent to China. researchers also revealed that company was collecting information on unique numbers identifying a device and also version of Android it’s running on it. Cybersecurity researcher Andrew Tierney reportedly spotted that Mi Browser Pro and Mint Browser collected same data and sent information to China. se browsers have more than 15 million downloads on Google Play Store.

However, Xiaomi reportedly rejected all claims saying that y are false allegations. smartphone seller said that privacy and security are ir topmost priority and it completely follows all local laws and regulations on user data privacy concerns. But, Xiaomi mobile also agreed that organisation collected browser data though anymously. 

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In a blog post of Mi, Xiaomi said, " collection of aggregated us statistics data is used for internal analysis, and we do t link any personally identifiable information to any of this data." company also mentioned that researchers “misunderstood what we communicated regarding our data privacy principles and policy.” It furr added, “as an internet company, internet security, safety and user privacy are Xiaomi’s core principles.” 

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Xiaomi is amongst India’s largest smartphone makers, and company's latest launch is going to be Mi te 10 Lite which is expected to launch on July 17, 2020. smartphone is expected to hit market with price of ₹28,490. However, such allegations may affect company’s reputation and product performance in country.

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