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A low-cost phone for senior citizens sold in the US and Canada asks to send location and Wi-Fi data to a Chinese internet giant when it boots up, we discovered while reviewing voice phones for PCMag this week. The Jethro SC490 is sold directly by its maker, as well as on Amazon for $84.99. It has a four-star Amazon rating and purports to work with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. It also asks to send location data to Baidu—a huge company thats basically the Google of China—to try to get a locat...