The phones of the Chinese brand Xiaomi would be recording the behavior of users on their own mobile phones and web history, even with private browsing activated , data that would later be sent to remote servers in China.
A Forbes investigation exposes the amount of data that Xiaomi smartphones allegedly collect from its users. The monitoring of web activity would be done through the own browser installed on the brand's devices, as well as in My Browser Pro and Mint Browser, available on Google Play.
Specifically, browsers would record web pages that the user visits or searches through services such as Google or DuckDuckGo, and would occur even if the user has activated incognito mode . Monitoring would also take place in the use of smarpthone , with the folders it opens, the status bar or the settings page.
These data, as the aforementioned media has learned, are being sent to remote servers in Singapore and Russia, whose web domains are registered in Beijing.
Xiaomi has pointed out to Forbes the priority that the security and privacy of users suppose for the company, and that its management is carried out in accordance with local privacy laws.
Although it has acknowledged that they do collect browsing information , a spokesperson has defended that the data is encrypted and anonymized, and that users have consented to such monitoring. The data, he argued, is not sent to a remote server, but is used to improve the experience.
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