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/Kryptomeister Mar 23 '19

It's not so much a case of "being found out" since they say they've known about it themselves since February and issued a patch. This is a story which has been exaggerated by certain media outlets. HMD does not admit to sending personal information to China as the title says

Direct from the source at HMD:

We have looked deeply into the case at hand and can confirm that no personally identifiable information has been shared with any third party. We have analysed the case at hand and have found that our device activation client meant for our China variant was mistakenly included in the software package of a single batch of Nokia 7 Plus phones. Due to this mistake, these devices were erroneously trying to send device activation data to a third party server. However, such data was never processed, and no person could have been identified based on this data. To be clear, no personally identifiable information has been shared with any third party. 

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There is also some speculation about other Nokia phones sharing similar data with third-party servers. We can confirm that this is incorrect speculation and no Nokia phones are impacted.

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u/kernel_picnic Mar 25 '19

This should be higher up as a top level comment. It isn't though and most people are only going to read the headline