BLU smartphones are back on sale on Amazon “after a false alarm”
Even though BLU denied security reports claiming its smartphones fail when it comes to user privacy, Amazon removed some of the company's handsets from its store.
It's yet unclear how BLU was able to determine Amazon to list its smartphones on the store after they were removed earlier this week, but they must have had some pretty solid arguments.
Unfortunately, this isn't the first time that one or more BLU smartphones are suspected of having third-party software pre-installed by Shanghai Adups Technology, which supposedly sends user data to servers in China.
Last fall, Kryptowire researchers proved the method used by ADUPS that collects data from a BLU smartphone and sends it to other servers without user's consent. BLU denied those allegations and said that its smartphones run “standard and basic data collection that pose no security or privacy risk.”
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