New Delhi: Some popular Chinese mobile phones and mobile applications seem to be under the scanner of the Armed Forces. The IAF has now asked its personnel to desist from using Chinese “Xiaomi Redmi 1s” phones as these could be transferring data to their servers in China and therefore could be a security risk.
A leading security solution company, recently carried out a test of Xiaomi Redmi 1s, the company’s budget smartphone, and found that the phone was forwarding carrier name, phone number, IMEI (the device identifier) plus numbers from address book and text messages back to Beijing,” an IAF advisory said.
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The IAF note has been prepared by the intelligence unit based on the inputs from the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), according to reports.
In a general statement two days ago, the Chinese company had said that it was fully committed to storing its users’ data securely at all times and that it is migrating some data on non-Chinese customers away from its servers in Beijing due to performance and privacy considerations.
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The Indian Army had also issued an alert to its personnel to beware of using Chinese mobile application WeChat.
