OnePlus officially recognized that through OxygenOS ccollects a lot of data from the customers' phones, including the phone numbers called by them, everything being discovered by an IT security researcher. It found that OnePlus collects a lot of information from customers' phones, including MAC addresses, information about the Wi-Fi networks people have connected to, data about locking or unlocking the phones, some information about what is displayed on the screen, and others.
OnePlus admitted everything in a post made on the company's discussion forum, and this attracted even more criticism from customers who are affected by the problem. The company admitted that it collects impressive data from customers' phones without them knowing, but announced that it will stop, because OnePlus places a high value on customer privacy, normal lies for the Chinese.
OnePlus collects customers' phone numbers
OnePlus was publicly denounced for this practice since the beginning of this year, but it didn't care until the moment the press started asking questions about the problem. OnePlus was quiet until they started to "flow" articles criticizing it for the fact that it takes from customers' phones, including dialed phone numbers, or those for received calls, the problem being a colossal one.
OnePlus announced that it collected the data to improve the user experience of OxygenOS, but what role phone numbers have in this is hard to say. The reality is that the phones made by the Chinese do not offer privacy, whether it is OnePlus, Huawei, Xiaomi, or other brands of companies that care about their customers as Romanian politicians care about the Romanians who vote for them.
"We take our users - and their data privacy - very seriously. We would also like to share we will no longer be collecting telephone numbers, MAC Addresses and WiFi information.”
