If you are one Xiaomi smartphone users If so, there is important news for you. If you want you can play the video above or watch the whole article here.
Xiaomi recently tracked the website browsing history of their default browser users, citing a cybersecurity researcher in the US magazine Forbes. Even in incognito or private mode, if you visit a website or do a search on a search engine, save them. By Shaomi.
Xiaomi on the phone The default browser is Mi Browser Pro, and they have another browser called Mint Browser. According to Google Play data, these have been downloaded more than 15 million times.
According to the cyber security researcher, Xiaomi stores users’ browsing history on their own servers while browsing with these browsers. However, nothing should be recorded on the device while browsing in incognito mode.
Xiaomi, meanwhile, says it does take some data from users’ phone usage, but encrypts it and does not use the data to identify the user separately. This means that it will not be possible to identify the user by looking at these data.
But after the researcher showed through a video that Xiaomi was taking browsing history while browsing in private mode, Xiaomi said that such anonymous data collection is a common thing.
However, according to the researcher, the encryption that Xiaomi is talking about is a weak encryption method and can be easily read. It is also possible to identify which user’s device this data was taken from, if Xiaomi uses their metadata. However, Shaomi has denied the allegations. And they Said That is, they attach great importance to users’ privacy and comply with local laws.
Gabby Serlig, a cybersecurity expert, first noticed this on his Redmi Note 8 phone. He later searched the firmware of Xiaomi Mi10, Redmi K20, Mi Mix 3 and suspected that many more Xiaomi phones, including those, were at risk of privacy breaches. Now let’s see what steps Xiaomi takes to alleviate this concern.
In fact in the digital world It’s a matter of privacy Very vague. Big companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, all have their finger on the data privacy of users. Now Shaomi has joined the list.
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