{"id":806085,"date":"2021-09-23T12:44:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T16:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=806085"},"modified":"2021-09-23T12:44:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T16:44:26","slug":"lithuania-tells-users-to-ditch-chinese-phones-over-censorship-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lithuania-tells-users-to-ditch-chinese-phones-over-censorship-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania Tells Users To Ditch Chinese Phones Over Censorship Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flithuania-tells-users-to-ditch-chinese-phones-over-censorship-fears%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=806085&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.662921348315\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Xiaomi phones block content that mentions &#8216;Taiwan,&#8217; &#8216;democracy&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1230593675-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1230593675-scaled-e1632411009793.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1230593675-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1230593675-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1230593675-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1230593675-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1230593675-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1230593675-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tA Xiaomi store in Beijing (Photo by GREG BAKER\/AFP via Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/santi-ruiz\/\" title=\"Posts by Santi Ruiz\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Santi Ruiz<\/a> \u2022 September 23, 2021 12:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"66.155451225874\">\n<p>Lithuania has warned its citizens that a popular phone manufactured in China contains built-in censorship technology, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/lithuania-says-throw-away-chinese-phones-due-censorship-concerns-2021-09-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lithuania\u2019s National Cyber Security Centre, phones from Xiaomi Corporation contain tools that can censor phrases the Chinese government finds offensive, including &#8220;Free Tibet,&#8221; &#8220;Long live Taiwan independence,&#8221; and &#8220;democracy movement.&#8221; The center also reported that the phones sent encrypted user data to a server in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Those tools in Xiaomi\u2019s 5G phone software had not been turned on in the &#8220;European Union region&#8221; but could be turned on remotely at any time. Lithuania\u2019s vice minister of defense warned the public against buying new Chinese phones and urged Lithuanians to &#8220;get rid of those already purchased as fast as reasonably possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Xiaomi phone uses a technique called &#8220;client-side scanning,&#8221; in which the phone&#8217;s software searches for terms on the phone without sending data elsewhere. The tool can automatically block downloads of content containing words from a list of banned terms supplied by the Chinese government. Lithuanian officials <a href=\"https:\/\/kam.lt\/en\/news_1098\/current_issues\/things_your_smart_phone_does_without_your_awareness_investigation_into_three_china-made_5g_devices.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> the list of terms was currently Chinese characters but that Latin characters could easily be added to the list.<\/p>\n<p>Apple made waves earlier this year when it announced it would roll out client-side scanning for child pornography on iPhones. Following the announcements, experts <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/china-could-abuse-apples-child-porn-detection-tool-experts-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a> that China could co-opt the tool to hunt down political dissidents. The Lithuanian revelations show China already uses these tools on phones it manufactures.<\/p>\n<p>The censorship tools are the latest example of China attempting to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/09\/01\/china-new-ambassador-speech-508465\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impose<\/a> its own speech standards on other countries. China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/13\/who-drops-censorship-of-words-taiwan-and-china-on-social-media-after-backlash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pressures<\/a> major international organizations not to use the word Taiwan. Relations between Lithuania and China have soured over Taiwan, which has aligned itself closely with Lithuania.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Xiaomi phones block content that mentions &#8216;Taiwan,&#8217; &#8216;democracy&#8217;  A Xiaomi store in Beijing (Photo by GREG BAKER\/AFP via Getty Images)  Santi Ruiz &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}