NotebookCHECK - Notebook Forum

English => News => Topic started by: Redaktion on December 01, 2017, 20:26:22

Title: Indian Intelligence Bureau calls out smartphone apps sending data to China
Post by: Redaktion on December 01, 2017, 20:26:22
The Indian Intelligence Bureau has directed its border troops to format their smartphones and delete a number of specified apps, citing the reason as a discovered data trail leading from these apps to China.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Indian-Intelligence-Bureau-calls-out-smartphone-apps-sending-data-to-China.267714.0.html
Title: Re: Indian Intelligence Bureau calls out smartphone apps sending data to China
Post by: Craig Ward on December 02, 2017, 00:51:44
A few of the entries I didn't find so surprising (e.g. UC Browser, Weibo etc), but there are some quite surprising applications showing up.

In particular the Xiaomi apps and Clean Master, which are either pre-installed on Xiaomi phones, and in the case of Clean Master it used to come on some other manufacturers devices. However, I was most surprised about ES File Explorer, but I suppose this does just add another thing to complain about in the downward spiral of what was once a great app.