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OxygenOS is Allegedly Data-mining Personally Identifiable Information for Analytics

While the OnePlus phones have a good reputation for their price and openness to development, the company itself has made some questionable decisions in the past with regards to  how they handle user data . At the time, we discovered that OxygenOS would leak your device’s IMEI onto the network while your device checks for an update. Now, OnePlus is accused of collecting even more sensitive, personally identifiable information according to security researcher Christopher Moore. During a Hack Challenge he was participating in last year, Moore decided to probe the internet traffic from his  OnePlus 2 . He discovered that his phone was sending HTTPS requests to the domain open.oneplus.net. He decrypted the data using the on-device key and was able to see all of the data being sent back to OnePlus’ AWS servers. He then analyzed what information was being sent to this domain and found that OnePlus was collecting screen on, screen off, device unlock events, abnormal reboot...