Millet on the upload of user information to respond that the message is automatically activated by the function

Abstract: Millet Company yesterday in Taiwan Media questioned its products will upload user information to the Beijing server to respond, called the Internet newsletter (that is, SMS) function automatically started, and said that the system has been upgraded to turn off the automatic start of the function, including the mainland

Millet yesterday in Taiwan media questioned its products will upload user information to the Beijing server to respond, known as "Internet Newsletter" (ie SMS) function automatically started, and said that the system has been upgraded to shut down the function of automatic start, including the mainland region.

Recently, Taiwan media reported that the millet mobile phone will upload user information to the Beijing server. reported that after the safety of the company in Malaysia Laboratory measurement, millet mobile phone inserted in the SIM card, connected to the Wi-Fi and start, will connect the millet mobile phone a server, and return the serial number IMEI code (International Mobile Device Identification Code) and insert the SIM card mobile phone number to the server. In addition, after the new phone address book contact person and send a newsletter, the test phone will receive the SMS phone number, the same forward to the server. And this kind of mobile phone number transmission is in the way of plaintext.

In response, millet company publicly responded that the Finnish safety report said that the millet phone will return the phone number to the Millet server, refers to the "Internet Newsletter" service. According to millet Introduction, "Internet Newsletter" is one of the MIUI system functions, through the IP transmission protocol, to provide users with free SMS delivery services. From the introduction, this function is similar to Apple's imessage, that is, not through the carrier's free online SMS function.

Millet company said Millet mobile phone in the boot, will be through the Millet server and IP protocol, automatically start the "Network Newsletter" service, the main use of the telephone number as the user to transmit information between the identification code, but also the use of IMEI and IMSI (International Mobile User identification Code) to detect the online status of mobile phones. When a user sends a newsletter, such as a mobile phone is on the Internet, the newsletter will send the message in IP, if the recipient is not online, the system will be sent out in a general newsletter, and will not choose to send via IP. In this process, the recipient's phone number is used only to identify the user's online status in order to determine how the message is sent. Personal data, such as any user's phone number and address book, are not stored in the SMS server.

Millet company said, because some users of the "Internet Newsletter" automatically launched after the personal privacy data transmission concerns, on August 10, the OTA upgrade package was released, the "Internet Newsletter" Automatic startup function, after the upgrade, all new users or the phone to restore the factory set up the old users, if you want to open the "Internet Newsletter" can be manually opened. At the same time, millet company also said that the user caused trouble to express sincere apology.

For millet to collect user information practices, Taiwan Media quoted the Cole researcher of the company Dave, said the general mobile phone in the unauthorized access, usually does not return the phone number or mobile phone numbers, the same, also rare will return the recipient's mobile phone number. Tiejun, the mainland's information security expert, said the controversy focused on "free online text messages," The function was recommended by the MIUI Wizard, MIUI users send text messages completely free, "you and friends with QQ, micro-letter chat also have to use Tencent server forwarding it?" What sin? ”