A recent study shows that top-of-the-line Android phones sold in China are a total privacy nightmare.
, some of the most popular in China, are all collecting massive amounts of sensitive user data via their respective operating systems, as are a variety of apps that come pre-installed on the phones.
What’s the big takeaway? For researchers, there’s clearly some work to be done when it comes to respecting Chinese users privacy. “Overall, our findings paint a troubling picture of the state of user data privacy in the world’s largest Android market, and highlight the urgent need for tighter privacy controls to increase the ordinary people’s trust in technology companies, many of which are partially state-owned,” they write.
The PII being collected includes pretty sensitive stuff, including basic user information like phone numbers and persistent device identifiers , geolocation data , and data related to “social connections”—such as contacts, their phone numbers, and phone and text metadata, the study found. In other words, the recipients of this data would have a pretty clear picture of who is using a particular device, where they are doing it, and who they’re talking to.
Gizmodo reached out to the phone manufacturers in question to ask for comment. We will update this story if they respond.
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