SpyVeillance: Lithuania Says To Bin Your Chinese Phones

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https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/lithuania-says-throw-away-chinese-phones-due-censorship-concerns-2021-09-21/

Lithuania's Defense Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying
Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they
have now after a government report found the devices had built-in
censorship capabilities.
Flagship phones sold in Europe by China's smartphone giant Xiaomi have
a built-in ability to detect and censor terms such as "Free Tibet",
"Long live Taiwan independence" or "democracy movement", Lithuania's
state-run cybersecurity body said on Tuesday. The capability in
Xiaomi's Mi 10T 5G phone software had been turned off for the
"European Union region", but can be turned on remotely at any time,
the Defence Ministry's National Cyber Security Centre said in the
report. "Our recommendation is to not buy new Chinese phones, and to
get rid of those already purchased as fast as reasonably possible,"
Defence Deputy Minister Margiris Abukevicius told reporters in
introducing the report.