{"id":12630,"date":"2021-09-23T09:42:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T13:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=12630"},"modified":"2021-09-24T15:55:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T19:55:54","slug":"lithuania-urges-people-to-dispose-of-chinese-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/lithuania-urges-people-to-dispose-of-chinese-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania Urges People To Dispose Of Chinese Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lithuania&#8217;s Defence Ministry recently warned consumers not to use Chinese phones and not to buy new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement came after a report by the National Cyber Security Centre claimed that the Xiaomi 10T Pro had censorship features while highlighting a flaw in Huawei&#8217;s P40 5G phone that allegedly put users at risk of cybersecurity breaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defence Deputy Minister Margiris Abukevicius said: &#8220;Our recommendation is to not buy new Chinese phones, and to get rid of those already purchased as fast as reasonably possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigating the problem, it emerged that the Xiaomi Mi 10T 5G phone has software that can recognize and censor terms such as &#8220;Free Tibet,&#8221; &#8220;Long live Taiwan independence&#8221; and &#8220;democracy movement.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report examined more than 449 terms that could be censored by Xiaomi&#8217;s phone&#8217;s system apps, and although it said the feature was disabled in Europe, the report claimed it could be remotely activated at any time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This new update from Lithuania&#8217;s Defence Ministry comes amid growing tensions between Lithuania and China.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-58652249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> on the BBC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania&#8217;s Dense Ministry recently warned consumers not to use Chinese phones and not to buy new ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[116,240],"class_list":["post-12630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobility","tag-huawei","tag-xiaomi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12656,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630\/revisions\/12656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}