Another reason to avoid US tech...

[onebyone]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1658889714781536256

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Are Qualcomm chips snooping on you? No, not quite

Snapdragon giant and others insist alleged data gathering is overblown

www.theregister.com

A Qualcomm spokesperson disputed the research. "The article is riddled with inaccuracies and appears to be motivated by the author’s desire to sell his product," a company spokesperson told The Register in an email. "Qualcomm only collects personal information when permitted by applicable law."

"As disclosed in our publicly available privacy policy, the relevant Qualcomm technologies use non-personal, anonymized, technical data to enable device manufacturers to provide their customers location-based apps and services that end users expect from today’s smartphones."

 

[ProudThamizhan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1658889714781536256

are these guys stupid? If any of you actually read the report it says they used a phone without a SIM and the only connectivity was IP address. So how do you do ANY comm using Wifi without sending IP address?

Secondly, when phones are initialised normally there is a user agreement (nobody reads it) that says certain info about device ops can be sent for diagnostics, performance purposes. That is what happened here. Any one can read the agreement.

This is just somebody in China (cgtn) trying to ape the western security outfits except they got it wrong

 

[Hero786]

"Qualcomm only collects personal information when permitted by applicable law."

Lol

 

[Kaleem.61]

A nathu phattu app will terminate soon after you deny any mandatory permission.

Give me the permission to read that data or FO. Imagine a chip giant....

 

[OIO]

It's about some agps data.