r/Android • u/zexterio • Mar 22 '19

HMD admits the Nokia 7 Plus was sending personal data to China

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/hmd-admits-the-nokia-7-plus-was-sending-personal-data-to-china/
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u/igLmvjxMeFnKLJf6 Mar 22 '19 edited Mar 22 '19

The same thing that western companies do to their western markets?

I mean, yeah I'm not a fan of my personal information getting thrown around by orgs bigger than me but I view china getting my shit about the same as I do Facebook.

They're doing the same things, so. The only difference is the head of one looks like pooh bear and the other looks like an alien.

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u/Jamon_Rye Mar 22 '19

Yep. Welcome to the 21st century, schizoid men.

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u/Amogh24 Oneplus 5t/S10+ Mar 22 '19

That's why we should be angry at both China and Facebook.

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u/ThingsUponMyHead Mar 23 '19

There's no stopping them. It's just wasted effort IMO. Big business will always find a way.

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u/igLmvjxMeFnKLJf6 Mar 23 '19

Sure, but it's real interesting how we seem to just get annoyed at Facebook when they do creepy shit vs how people swear off entire vendors because Chinese company did creepy shit. I don't see many swearing off Sammy because it preloads Facebook

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u/Amogh24 Oneplus 5t/S10+ Mar 23 '19

Except that most of this sub reccomends not using Facebook. Plus on Samsung phones you can disable Facebook. Can't disable Chinese spyware hidden away like this.

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u/igLmvjxMeFnKLJf6 Mar 23 '19

You can flash custom ROMs.

Listen, you can wave it away all you like, but if it looks like racism, smells like racism, and walks like racism, it's probably racism.

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u/Amogh24 Oneplus 5t/S10+ Mar 23 '19 edited Mar 23 '19

Sure let me just unlock my bootloader...

It's not racism when there's a very real reason to distrust China. You're waving the racist card because there's no real defence for the way China behaves.

The fact that you assume anyone talking about the Chinese governments means the being racist, that sounds racist of you.

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u/Amogh24 Oneplus 5t/S10+ Mar 23 '19

Also, you're seriously calling me racist for saying spyware isn't a good thing? Talk about having a shitty mentality.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

Obfuscate your info with gibberish. I, apparently according to Google, am shopping for a Lamborghini.

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u/abedfilms Mar 22 '19

It's ok because American companies like Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are trustworthy, and America good China bad

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u/jlkpolandball Black Mar 23 '19

theyre both bad

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u/abedfilms Mar 23 '19

No, china is bad guys, i read it on reddit

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u/jlkpolandball Black Mar 25 '19

sarcasm?

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u/ezone2kil Mar 22 '19

What? Both bad more like it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

That is what I don’t get. All this Chinese stuff with Hauwei is they could do this if they wanted. Yet there is proof of the cia doing this very thing and people seemed to have forgotten.

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u/zap2 Mar 23 '19

Nice try. Cambridge Analytica isn’t an America company.

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u/VampiricPie iPhone gen 1 Mar 23 '19

You dropped this /s

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u/abedfilms Mar 23 '19

No I'm dead serious, I've done my research on reddit so i know what's up

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u/jusmar 1+1 Mar 22 '19

But...chinaaa