A group of computer scientists, two from the University of Edinburgh, and a third from Trinity College, has found that phones purchased by customers in China are riddled with software that continuously sends user data to third parties without the permission or even knowledge of the phone’s users. Haoyu Liu, Douglas Leith and Paul Patras have summarized their findings in a paper posted on the arXiv preprint server.
Android phones sold to customers in China found to be loaded with apps that send user data to third parties
