To: elmatador who wrote (124676 ) 11/15/2016 8:59:11 PM From: Elroy Jetson Respond to Low-cost Android phones are secretly sending your messages, contacts and GPS locations to China After a US congressional investigation said in 2012 that Huawei and ZTE networking hardware and the firmware contain backdoors that could be used for espionage , US government contractors were prohibited from using electronic equipment manufactured by Huawei or ZTE. 5 million Chinese-made Android phones sold in the US last year have been found to send the phone user's contacts, messages, and locations to China every three days , according to security research firms and the The New York Times, which first covered the story .bluproducts.com , a smartphone maker based in Florida, which confirmed that 120,000 of its phone included one of these backdoors. Companies like Blu may not be widely known, but these resellers specialize in offering unlocked phones. Last year alone over five million unlocked devices of this type were sold.a brief statement that a third-party application, known as Adups, had "been collecting unauthorized personal data in the form of Text Messages, Call Logs, GPS data, Contacts and eMails from customers," and has since issued a software update to remove the feature.a lengthy statement , Adups said it uploads the Text Messages, Call Logs, GPS Location History, Contacts and eMails from their phones "to screen out junk texts and calls from advertisers . " the Times pointed out . But Shanghai ADUPS Technology Co., Ltd., the Chinese software company behind the Adups software, says on its website that it also serves ZTE and Huawei, two Chinese technology giants.
