Finnish security firm F-Secure has shown that a smartphone from Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi does secretly steal user data without their permission despite strong denials by the company last month. At the end of July a number of articles claimed that phones made by up-and-coming Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi - often called the 'Apple of the East' - were silently uploading user information to servers based in Beijing.

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