American legislators allege that the OnePlus phones transmit data to Chinese servers without user consent

A pair of American legislators called on the American trade department to investigate OnePlus for allegations that the company’s devices transmit data to Chinese servers without user consent, . It is a bipartite effort, with the Republican representative John Moolenaar (MI) and the Democratic Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL) leading calls to an investigation.

There are no real data to support these allegations, but the legislators claim to have seen documents by a “commercial enterprise” which suggest that OnePlus participates in the aforementioned practice. The initial report suggests “potential transfers of sensitive personal information and screenshots”. The word “potential” seems to make a lot of big lifting here.

It brings me to a question. If this is serious enough to justify an official Doc investigation, why did the government not warn American residents to stop using OnePlus devices? It would seem to be obvious. Instead, we just had a little . Engadget contacted OnePlus and updates this story when we hear.

There is only one thing with certainty here. OnePlus is indeed a Chinese company, leaving it open to the types of allegations that tormented Tiktok and its parent company Bytedance. The main reason behind the is that the Chinese property of the company could allow the foreign government to access user data and to influence American citizens.

Just like with allegations against OnePlus, there is This Bytedance engages in harmful practices. Tiktok collects user data, but that it does not go beyond American companies like Meta and X.