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Indian user data on realme smartphones is being sent to China? That is what is being asked in a tweet by an Indian Twitter user and adding heft to that tweet was the reaction from Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar who said that the government will take a look at it. The reaction followed quickly on the heels of a tweet by Twitter user Rishi Bagree, which said, “Realme’s smartphone has a feature (Enhanced Intelligent Services) that captures the user’s data (call logs, SMS, and location info) and it is “On” by default.”
He added, “You can only see this “on” by default feature when you go to Settings -> Additional Settings -> System Services -> Enhanced Intelligent Services.”
Indicating that the Indian user’s consent has not been taken before enabling the feature, Bagree said, “Indian users are kept in dark to share their data without their consent.”
He concluded by saying, “This is basically forced consent, since it’s on by default. Is this data being sent to China?”
Following this observation, Minister of State for Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, announced that the government would examine the matter.
Chandrasekhar made this statement in response to a retweet of the original tweet, which included a screenshot and allegations against the Chinese smartphone brand realme.
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