Xiaomi faces charges of collecting a large amount of data and hacking into users' privacy

Phone giant Xiaomi is facing new accusations from a researcher, asserting that the company is working through its smartphones to collect a large amount of data, which leads to a breach of users' privacy.

A security researcher recently monitored the collection of his Redmi Note 8 phone a lot of screen data and then sent this data to remote servers hosted through Alibaba where the server was ostensibly borrowed from Sahumi.

The security researcher noted in his report that Xiaomi is collecting different data from his Redmi Note 8 phone, raising concerns about the breach of his privacy and data.

The researcher explained that the device worked to save all the sites visited through the browser Xiaomi virtual, as he confirmed that the preservation of browsing data continued after choosing safe browsing mode or blocked "incognito", also monitoring the preservation of the phone for data files opened, the location of the preservation of these files on the phone, and then collected and sent all the data to servers in Singapore and Russia, while the host sites were recorded in Beijing.

Forbes, on the other hand, launched an investigation through researcher Andrew Tierney, where he revealed the collection of all browsers submitted by Xiaomi on Google Play data, including Mi Pro and Mint browser where these browsers were downloaded 15 million times.

Sahomei has denied any problem, although Cirlig stressed the danger of collecting this data, which may affect the privacy of millions of users, and stressed that the problem of privacy penetration is faced by users of MI 10, Redmi And K20, as well as Mi MIX 3.

Commenting on the accusations, Sheumi stressed that there was no problem, and stressed that the data sent is encrypted, and that the Forbes report is disappointing, and that Forbes did not recognize the privacy principles that are a priority for Sahumi.