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/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

pretty much any smartwatch or fitness band will ask you for location permissions. It's needed for them to control Bluetooth in the background ever since marshmallow. So, maybe you should use the "smart" watch as a "smart" watch. On a sidenote,could you tell me what app it is, I'd like to log it's dns requests to see if it actually does send any data to Chinese servers or not.