Oneplus Secretly Collects Fashion To A Greater Extent Than Information Than It Should — Here’S How To Disable It

There is terrible intelligence for all OnePlus lovers.

Your OnePlus handset, running OxygenOS—the company's custom version of the Android operating system, is collecting agency to a greater extent than information on its users than it requires.

H5N1 recent spider web log postal service published today past times safety researcher Christopher Moore on his website detailed the information collection exercise past times the Shenzhen-based Chinese smartphone maker, revealing that OxygenOS built-in analytics is regularly sending users' telemetry information to OnePlus' servers.

Collecting basic telemetry device information is a commons exercise that every software maker as well as device manufacturers do to identify, analyse as well as cook software issues as well as aid ameliorate the lineament of their products, but OnePlus constitute collecting user identification information equally well.

Moore exactly started intercepting the network traffic to analyse what information his OnePlus device sends to its servers, as well as constitute that the information collected past times the companionship included:

• User’ hollo number
• MAC addresses
• IMEI as well as IMSI code
• Mobile network(s) names
• Wireless network ESSID as well as BSSID
• Device series number
• Timestamp when a user locks or unlocks the device
• Timestamp when a user opens as well as closes an application on his phone
• Timestamp when a user turns his hollo hide on or off

It is clear that to a higher house information is plenty to position whatever OnePlus user.

"Wow, that is quite a chip of information nigh my device, fifty-fifty to a greater extent than of which tin lav move tied straight dorsum to me past times OnePlus as well as other entities," Moore said.

"It gets fifty-fifty worse. These final result information comprise timestamps of which activities were fired upwards inwards which inwards applications, i time to a greater extent than stamped amongst the phone’s series number."

Moreover, there's no conduct pick available to disable this telemetry tracking behaviour.

This same number was too publicly reported to OnePlus inwards July final twelvemonth past times approximately other safety researcher as well as software engineer, who goes past times the online moniker "Tux," but the occupation got ignored past times OnePlus equally good equally others.

Moore too reported this number to OnePlus support, but the squad did non render whatever solution to address it, field OnePlus did non withal respond.

However, the practiced intelligence is that Jakub Czekański, an Android developer, today introduced a permanent solution to disable telemetry tracking exercise fifty-fifty without rooting your smartphone.

You tin lav straight connect your OnePlus device inwards USB debugging vogue to a computer, opened upwards adb vanquish as well as larn inwards this ascendance — pm uninstall -k --user 0 net.oneplus.odm — inwards gild to larn rid of OnePlus' excess information collecting practice.

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