Pre-installed apps on Android phones from some Chinese vendors, as well as third-party apps, are transmitting personal user information without notification or consent from users.
on Android phones from three popular Chinese vendors, as well as third-party apps, are reportedly transmitting personal user information without notification or consent.
Researchers at universities in the United Kingdom examined the Chinese version of the Android OS distributions run byThe arXiv paper's authors measured the network traffic generated by handsets when in use, using static and dynamic code analysis techniques to look at the data transmitted by the reinstalled system apps.
"We find that these devices come bundled with a number of third-party applications, some of which are granted dangerous runtime permissions by default without user consent, and transmit traffic containing a broad range of geolocation, user-profile and social relationships [personally identifiable information] to both phone vendors and third-party domains, without notifying the user or offering the choice to opt-out," the research showed.
Phones are charged before the dispatch inside the Realme factory in Greater Noida, India, Wednesday, June 1, 2022.Notably, the collection does not stop once the device and user leave China, despite the fact that different countries have different privacy laws. Furthermore, data was found to be sent to mobile operators even when they were not providing service. "This poses serious deanonymization and
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