China Android Phones Have 30 Data-Collecting Apps

China’s top Android phones come with tens of preinstalled apps that transmit privacy-sensitive data to third-party domains without consent or notice, The Register reports.

Researchers looked specifically at information transmitted by the phones’ operating system and system apps, in order to exclude user-installed software said the report, and said they found more than 30 third-party packages on each of the three leading Android handsets with Chinese firmware.

Full story: The Register.

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Sean O'Meara is an Editor at Asia Financial. He has been a newspaper man for more than 30 years, working at local, regional and national titles in the UK as a writer, sub-editor, page designer and print editor. A football, cricket and rugby fan, he has a particular interest in sports finance.