Chinese Xiaomi Phones Spying On Your Personal Data.

Xiaomi Phones are spying on the user data and sending it to chinese servers.Although some might not call it as spying but the kind of data that is collected makes it no less than spying. 

Amid the corona virus crises one app that emerged useful for video calling was zoom app but that too became unsafe as it also stole and sent user data to Chinese servers. 

Another popular app TikTok has also been found to be involved in such illegal activities by USA.

User data collection is quite a normal thing in android world and each app does it. Infact the user itself allow the apps to collect the data before installing it.

Apps collect data about the their own use like: analytics about app usage time, clicks, opens and crash reports.

How Xiaomi Phones Spy On Your Personal Data?

China is known for using its private firms with global presences as a geopolitical tool. There have been many instances in recent history where Chinese firms have been found indulged in spy activities for Chinese government. As India is a major geopolitical rival to China, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Xiaomi is deliberately tweaking around with its products in India.India and China have been involved in serious border disputes recently. Armies of both the countries came face to face once in Doklam back in 2017 followed by a skirmish in 2020.

Xiaomi takes it to a whole new level where it collects not only the above mentioned data but also collects URL s being visited , browsing behavior ,third party apps data,  links clicked both in normal as well as private browsing mode.

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Collecting Data for Behavioral Analytics.

Xiaomi appears to have another reason for collecting the data: to better understand its users’ behavior. It’s using the services of a behavioral analytics company called Sensors Analytics. Xiaomi is also listed as a customer on Sensors Data’s website.

Which Apps are most Dangerous?

As per a recent report on this Xiaomi Phone's security it was found that Mi’s browser is dangerous as it records user’s private browsing data , websites visited , content downloaded and shared and sends it to Chinese servers.Use google chrome browser in place of it.

India has made a list of 42 android apps that are spying on user’s data and is sending it to Chinese servers.

The list is prepared on the inputs of National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO). All army personnel have been told to immediately uninstall the 42 apps as well as format their smartphones for additional measure.

Most of the apps from this list come pre installed in Xiaomi Redmi mobiles. Apps like Mi Browser, Mi store, Mi Security, Mi video are already installed in redmi mobiles and cant be uninstalled by the user.If you are unable to uninstall dangerous pre installed apps in redmi mobiles then just stop using them.

List of 42 dangerous apps to be  uninstalled:

1. Weibo

2. WeChat

3. SHAREit

4. Truecaller

5. UC News

6. UC Browser

7. BeautyPlus

8. NewsDog

9. VivaVideo- QU Video Inc

10. Parallel Space

11. APUS Browser

12. Perfect Corp

13. Virus Cleaner (Hi Security Lab)

14. CM Browser

15. Mi Community

16. DU recorder

17. Vault-Hide

18. YouCam Makeup

19. Mi Store

20. CacheClear DU apps studio

21. DU Battery Saver

22. DU Cleaner

23. DU Privacy

24. 360 Security

25.  DU Browser

26. Clean Master - Cheetah Mobile

27. Baidu Translate

28. Baidu Map

29. Wonder Camera

30. ES File Explorer

31. Photo Wonder

32. QQ International

33. QQ Music

34. QQ Mail

35. QQ Player

36. QQ NewsFeed

37. WeSync

38. QQ Security Centre

39. SelfieCity

40. Mail Master,

41. Mi Video call-Xiaomi

42. QQ Launcher

If you have any of these 42 apps installed in your phone then you  should uninstall it and in place of these dangerous apps you can use other apps like Google chrome for web browsing, kaspersky/ mcafee / quick heal for antivirus , google duo for video calling.

UC browser and clean master are the most popular but most dangerous apps. These should never be used by anyone who is worried about getting recognized on  the web by his search history.

Also Read:India's plans to counter China in Indian Ocean 

Share this report with other android users because  privacy should not be stolen by anyone and users should be made aware about those apps who steal user data.