The Taiwanese HTC could be part of the malicious club to which Apple or Google already belong, and not precisely because of fame or recognition in their good manners. We refer to the controversy that in recent months has plagued smartphone developers and manufacturers, regarding the possibility of storing users' private data to offer them to third parties.
Through the digital edition of El Mundo, we have learned today that two of the latest HTC launches (the most powerful and solvent, in fact), the HTC Sensation and HTC EVO 3D, would be equipped with a function compatible with Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, which would collect information on the user's geolocation to store it on remote servers and provide it to operators.
In addition, the system would supposedly track the use of the device, determining whether the user would have unlocked the system (breaking the lock of the so-called Bootloader, a common practice among the more handymen who want to have all the platform's editing options open wide), which is against the rules of use of HTC devices, on pain of voiding the warranty.
In the same conditions of use of both devices, the owner of the terminal is warned of the possibility of the system storing the data, so this practice , in strictly legal terms, would not be a cause of infringement.
If you are a user of one of these two devices , you should not fear the fact that private data such as photos, contacts, messages and other similar data are exposed, since, as reflected from elmundo.es from statements made by the spokesperson of the North American operator Sprint, this type of information would not be part of what is sent to the firm's servers.
