‘Our recommendation is to not buy new Chinese phones, and to get rid of those already purchased as fast as reasonably possible,’ the country’s deputy defense minister said.
Lithuania’s Defense Ministry advised against purchasing Chinese mobile phones and recommended that people discard any they might have now following a government report that censorship abilities had been installed in the phones.
The Lithuanian government’s cybersecurity body said on Tuesday that phones sold across Europe by China’s electronics giant Xiaomi have built-in capabilities to discover and censor phrases in Chinese characters including “Free Tibet”, “Long live Taiwan independence” or “democracy movement”.
The abilities in Xiaomi’s Mi 10T 5G phone software had been switched off in the “European Union region”, yet can be switched on remotely at any time, according to the report from the Defense Ministry’s National Cyber Security Center.
The report touched on cybersecurity issues in the Chinese smartphones, particularly the collection of user activities. The data sent from the phones to Xiaomi servers in third countries did not observe data protection rules, the report says.
“Our recommendation is to not buy new Chinese phones, and to get rid of those already purchased as fast as reasonably possible,” Defense Deputy Minister Margiris Abukevičius told media outlets including Reuters.
Xiaomi did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
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‘Our recommendation is to not buy new Chinese phones, and to get rid of those already purchased as fast as reasonably possible,’ the country’s deputy defense minister said.
The smart thing to do is ban the import of this junk immediately.
Nothing good comes from communist countries like China and Russia. Nothing.
The only good thing coming out of Russia, is the roads to Ukraine.
They all transfer our data to Beijing, i know this as a former intel insider. But this also includes Apple. Twitter and Facebook are also run by China, so are Joe Biden and Angela Merkle.