Monday 4 May 2020

Xiaomi responds to media coverage on its user data collection

Last week, on April 30th, Forbes posted an exclusive warning readers that Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi is recording millions of people's phone usage, and sending it to Alibaba servers in China, which Xiaomi rents.

According to the article, the default Xiaomi browser records all of the websites visited, even if "incognito mode" is on. In addition, opened folders and swiped screens, including swipes on the status bar and the phone settings page, are all also recorded and sent to the aforementioned servers.

An additional reason for concern noted by Forbes is that although the data ...

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