Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi is facing allegations of sending data of its own smartphone users to a remote server. The cyber security analyst has given evidence that the company is sending private data to the register server in China.
Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi is number-1 in the Indian smartphone market. This company is being accused of spying on its own users. According to the report, the company is sending the data of Xiaomi smartphone users to its servers.
According to a report by Forbes, cyber security analyst Gabby Cirlig has claimed that all apps, including Xiaomi’s web browser, are copying mobile data and uploading it to the server without user authentication.
Gabby Cirlig has also said that he has enough evidence to prove this claim. Let me tell you that this is not the first time that such allegations have been made on the company. Such allegations have been made earlier also.
This analyst has said that the Redmi Note 8 smartphone was monitoring their work and sending data to Xiaomi’s rented server. They have found that the data associated with their identity and privacy is going to the smartphone maker ie Xiaomi.
Browser data is also being tracked
He has also said that the default browser of Xiaomi is monitoring the activity of every internet of his. The surprising thing is that he has also claimed that he used the Security Focus DuckDuckGo browser, yet his internet activity was tracked.
Regarding Redmi Note 8, he has said that this smartphone tracks each of his usage behavior like screen gestures and file activity and sends it to two remote servers of Xiaomi. These servers are in Singapore and Russia whose registration is in China.
Data is also being sent from these smartphones
Cirling has said about Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 including Mi 10, Redmi K20 and Mi Mix 3 that these smartphones are tracking users and sending them to data servers.
The company said that for the betterment of data collection users …
Xiaomi has said on this allegation that the safety and privacy of users are the top concern for the company. According to the report, a spokesperson of Xiaomi has accepted this charge of data collection and said that these are for better user experience and the company ensures that this data is not associated with any user.
However, the company has also said that the company does not track users’ data on Incognito mode. But in the Forbes report, the security analyst has told with evidence that the company also tracks the data in Incognito mode.
