OnePlus (Once Again) Refutes Allegations About Clipboard Data Being Sent to China

OnePlus has released an official statement denying recent allegations that it sends clipboard information from its smartphones to Chinese servers. The company was defendant for the second time this month of uploading the private data of users to servers in its home country. In a statement released to Android Police, the company refutes the latest allegations in no uncertain terms by saying that, "No user data is being sent to any server without consent in OxygenOS".

Co-ordinate to OnePlus, "There'south been a false claim that the Clipboard app has been sending user data to a server. The code is entirely inactive in the open beta for OxygenOS , our global operating system. No user data is being sent to any server without consent in OxygenOS".

The visitor goes on to say that, "In the open beta for HydrogenOS, our operating system for the China market, the identified folder exists in order to filter out what data to not upload. Local data in this folder is skipped over and non sent to any server".

The controversy started last week when some users spotted a text file named "badwords.txt" (pictured beneath in the embedded tweet) that plainly contains a number of 'blacklisted words' that are not supposed to be monitored for the smart clipboard service found on the visitor's China-specific custom ROM, HydrogenOS.

The @OnePlus #clipboard app contains a foreign file chosen badword.txt 🤔

In these words, nosotros tin can notice: Chairman, Vice President, Deputy Director, Acquaintance Professor, Deputy Heads, General, Individual Message, shipping, Address, email, …https://t.co/ePQvD1citn pic.twitter.com/3dCh0joVkH

— Baptiste Robert (@fs0c131y) Jan 25, 2018

According to the visitor, the 'feature' was originally intended as a workaround for the manner WeChat, China's most-used OTT messaging service, blocks competitor links from its ain app. The code apparently lies dormant in the global OxygenOS ROM, but that'south doing very fiddling to end people from getting spooked over privacy concerns.

Equally readers will annotation, this is inappreciably the outset time that OnePlus has been accused of this sort of behavior. Earlier this month, reports started emerging that a organisation app (com.oneplus.clipboard) in the OnePlus 3T was sending clipboard data directly to the servers of Chinese tech giant Alibaba after upgrading the firmware to a beta release of Android Oreo.

OnePlus denied those allegations by saying that it is a 'feature' meant simply for the Chinese built of its custom ROM, that was, apparently, mistakenly shipped to international users. The visitor had as well stated back then that the data wasn't meant for harvesting but "provide appropriate buttons to assistance you accelerate your side by side action".

Source: https://beebom.com/oneplus-refutes-clipboard-allegations/

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