This Phone Wants to Send Your Location Data to China
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 that's basically the Google of China—to try to get a location fix when GPS isn't available. The SC490's situation shows one danger of buying low-cost uncerti...
Source: pcmag.com