It has always been said that if a product is offered free of charge to the consumer, the product is not the service that it offers you, but companies use to collect user-generated data for profit.
This is what Xiaomi is currently accused according to Forbes. The Chinese brand is collecting more data from its users more than we previously thought.
According to the investigation, the company stores its user data not only in the traditional way, as other companies do, but in a more aggressive way, for example saving data from webpages we see hidden in our browsers.
In addition, mobile phones send information to the company's servers about the folders that we open, anything we care about and more.
Investigator Andrew Turney, who was hired by Forbes to investigate the case, saw that cell phones not only send out information of this type, but also some of the company's apps.
Two apps have been charged with this and they are Mi Browser Pro and Mint Browser, which were created by the company and can be downloaded easily from Google Play Store.
The Chinese company claims that the data sent to its servers is encrypted and that there is no correlation between it and the users who created it.
Andrew Turney has found that while it is true that it is encrypted, the protocol used (base64) is so secure that it only took a few seconds to break it and see the data it was supposed to be unable to monitor.
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