Earlier this week Amazon suspended sales of some smartphones from BLU Products. The move came in response to concerns raised by security firm Kryptowire, which reported that some user data was being sent by software on those phones to servers in China without first obtaining permission from users. But now Amazon is selling BLU phones […]
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Some smartphones have been secretly sending text messages, other data to Chinese servers
Comments Off on Some smartphones have been secretly sending text messages, other data to Chinese serversResearchers at mobile security firm Kryptowire have discovered software running on some smartphones that sends sensitive data to a server in China without clearly making that clear to users. One of the phone makers with affected models is Florida-based Blu Products, maker of the popular BLU R1 HD smartphone that Amazon sold for as little […]