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Lithuania tells its citizens to throw away their Chinese mobile phones after report found devices had built-in censorship capabilities
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Cybersecurity body report found Xiaomi devices could detect and censor terms

  • 'Free Tibet', 'Long live Taiwan independence' or 'democracy movement' among terms included in the feature, which was turned off for EU region

  • However, it could be turned on remotely at any time, Tuesday's report found

  • The National Cyber Centre report also said the phone was sending encrypted phone usage data to a server in Singapore

  • A security flaw was also found in the P40 5G phone produced by Huawei

  • Xiaomi has not responded to the report which comes amid tensions with China

  • Huawei said its phones do not send users' data externally

Posted by: Skidmark 2021-09-22
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