{"id":851,"date":"2021-09-22T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/?p=851"},"modified":"2021-09-22T12:36:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T09:36:01","slug":"throw-away-your-chinese-phones-lithuania-defense-minister-tells-citizensnew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/throw-away-your-chinese-phones-lithuania-defense-minister-tells-citizensnew\/","title":{"rendered":"THROW AWAY YOUR CHINESE PHONES, LITHUANIA DEFENSE MINISTER TELLS CITIZENSNEW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/lithuania-china-phones-cybersecurity-concerns\/\">Politco<\/a>.&nbsp;22 September 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.uyghurcongress.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-2021-09-22T122720.319.jpg?resize=167%2C117&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45548\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Below is an article published by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/lithuania-china-phones-cybersecurity-concerns\/\">Politco<\/a>. Photo:AFP.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lithuania\u2019s Defense Ministry\u00a0advised\u00a0against purchasing Chinese mobile phones and recommended that people discard any they might have now following a government report that censorship abilities had been installed in the phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Lithuanian government\u2019s cybersecurity body said on Tuesday that phones sold across Europe by China\u2019s electronics giant Xiaomi have built-in capabilities to discover and censor phrases in Chinese characters including \u201cFree Tibet\u201d, \u201cLong live Taiwan independence\u201d or \u201cdemocracy movement\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The abilities in Xiaomi\u2019s Mi 10T 5G phone software had been switched off in the \u201cEuropean Union region\u201d, yet can be switched on remotely at any time, according to the report from the Defense Ministry\u2019s National Cyber Security Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report touched on cybersecurity issues in the Chinese smartphones, particularly the collection of user activities. The data sent from the phones to Xiaomi servers in third countries did not observe data protection rules, the report says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur recommendation is to not buy new Chinese phones, and to get rid of those already purchased as fast as reasonably possible,\u201d Defense Deputy Minister Margiris Abukevi\u010dius told media outlets including&nbsp;Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xiaomi did not respond immediately to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Relations between Lithuania and China have recently taken a turn for the worse. China&nbsp;recalled its ambassador in Lithuania&nbsp;in August after Vilnius moved to set up a new diplomatic office in Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taiwanese missions in Europe and the United States use the name of the city Taipei, avoiding reference to the island itself, which China claims as its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politco.&nbsp;22 September 2021 Below is an article published by&nbsp;Politco. Photo:AFP. Lithuania\u2019s Defense Ministry\u00a0advised\u00a0against purchasing Chinese mobile phones and recommended that people discard any they might have now following a government report that censorship abilities had been installed in the phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}