Attention! Cheap Android's Smartphones are Possible to Sell User's Data

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Have a smartphone with a cheap price and has a qualified specification, who would not want? In fact, many people are competing to get a smartphone that "like" this. But there seems to be something you need to look at once.

Yudha P., Tekno Kompas - Be careful if you use Android smartphone with cheap price. The reason, the Wall Street Journal found the fact that a cheap Android phone brand was selling user data on the other party.

Smartphone called Singtech P10 is known to be marketed in Asia, especially Cambodia and Myanmar. This phone collects data and sells it to an ad agency General Mobile Corp. alias GMobi based in Taiwan. "This Taiwan-based GMobi has a branch in Shanghai and says they use the data for advertising purposes," said the Wall Street Journal, quoted by KompasTekno from Android Central on today, Monday July 9, 2018.

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This phone collects a variety of user data ranging from locations ranging from IMEI numbers to other data which are then sent to the GMobi servers in Singapore. These data are then used for advertising purposes. How GMobi collects these data is through applications that have been installed by default on this Singtech P10 smartphone. Although many similar applications that collect user data, GMobi applications are different from the usual. GMobi application is bloatware so it can not be removed in the normal way, unlike other applications that can be easily removed by the owner of the phone.

On GMobi's official page are listed some big clients, such as Huawei and Xiaomi. However, it can not be ascertained what kind of cooperation they are going through. Either the two phones are also likely to "mining" user data or simply use the services of GMobi to get reference data in producing the latest mobile phone. The case of data theft is currently getting public attention. Since the inception of the Cambridge Analytica scandal involving Facebook some time ago, privacy and data security issues are getting stronger around the world.

Hopefully this is resolved soon, because of course our privacy as users will be disturbed.

Source: Tekno Kompas