OnePlus, in a statement to Android Police has admitted to collecting data, and said the company does so to enhance its software based on user behaviour and provide better after-sales support. Notably, Moore contacted the Chinese company in January 2017 as well asking for solution to permanently disable data collection. /cc:@troyhunt pic.twitter.com/VihaIDI6wP — Christopher Moore (@chrisdcmoore) January 13, 2017Yes please: how do I turn off this event data collection (which gets sent to http://t.co/42nroll7PD)? — Christopher Moore (@chrisdcmoore) January 13, 2017That’s not going to make a difference; presumably you bake this into the OS image. — Christopher Moore (@chrisdcmoore) January 14, 2017This is not the first time that OnePlus has ended up in a major controversy.

Source: Indian Express October 11, 2017 07:54 UTC