The Japanese company Sony has been forced to come to the fore after the controversy generated after the detection of a malicious application installed as standard in the smartphones of the Sony Xperia range. It turns out that, a few days ago, an anonymous user reported in a discussion forum the existence of a folder installed as standard on his Xperia mobile under the name " Baidu ", a folder that not only could not be deleted in any way, but which apparently was in charge of periodically sending information to servers located in China. Considering that Baidu is the Asian alternative toGoogle, and knowing the goings-on that the Chinese government spends in matters of control of its citizens, the controversy was served.
But Sony has wanted to avoid by all means that rivers of ink run on this matter, and therefore in the same forum in which this problem was made known, a Sony employee has not taken long to appear, who has denied all the related controversy with the mysterious " Baidu " folder. According to this employee, " Xperia mobiles do not store or transmit any type of user information to Baidu ", and justifies that " the myXperia application uses the services of Google Cloud Messaging, Baidu and many other third-party apps in order to guarantee the support of our mobiles around the world ". " Sony Mobile guarantees to all its users that the MyXperia application does not store or transmit any user data to Baidu ," adds the employee.
Sony has already promised a new update that will limit the use of Baidu only to the Asian territory, thus preventing European users from having any suspicions regarding the privacy of the information they handle on their Xperia range phones. This update will only be launched with the idea of avoiding confusion that could occur in these types of situations, since the MyXperia application will continue to work in the same way with the idea of continuing to guarantee the user a positive experience when using their Sony Xperia.
Every time a new controversy related to the security of mobile devices appears, the Android operating system becomes the main point of all eyes. As if Android scams weren't enough, users also face other additional dangers that result in such high-profile cases, such as, for example, the leakage of photos of celebrities in positions that are not recommended for the eyes of minors. age. Hopefully Android 5.0 Lollipop, the most recent update to the Android operating system, will be able to fix all these problems once and for all thanks to the introduction of new security measures.
