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OnePlus Talks About OxygenOS Analytics, Stops Collecting Certain Information

We recently covered a report on OnePlus allegedly collecting personally identifiable information about its users through the OxygenOS analytics software. How the company  handles such information has been questioned in the past  so this new report about its analytics software didn’t help the case any further. Today though, co-founder of OnePlus Carl Pei published a forum post about the issue at hand and spoke about why they collected certain data and how things will change in the future. The  original report came from Christopher Moore  and it recently started to gain traction online thanks to the Android community sharing with others. Mr. Moore discovered that his  OnePlus 2  was sending HTTPS requests to the domain open.oneplus.net and was able to decrypt the data that was being sent. The data that the company has been collecting from its users includes screen on, screen off, device unlock events, abnormal reboots, serial number, IMEI, ph...