OnePlus releases statement denying that users' clipboard data is being sent to China
The badwords.txt file scared OnePlus users into thinking that their data was being sent to China
The reason this file exists in China is to prevent Chinese messaging app WeChat from blocking links to competitors. A feud between the top two internet giants in the country, Tencent and Alibaba, is really at the core of this. Since this has nothing to do with the U.S. market at all (or any region outside of Asia), the file is inactive in OxygenOS.
Hopefully, the official statement from OnePlus will put an end to the rumors and speculation. You can find it inside the quotation marks in the box below.
"There’s been a false claim that the Clipboard app has been sending user data to a server. The code is entirely inactive in the open beta for OxygenOS , our global operating system. No user data is being sent to any server without consent in OxygenOS.
In the open beta for HydrogenOS, our operating system for the China market, the identified folder exists in order to filter out what data to not upload. Local data in this folder is skipped over and not sent to any server."-OnePlus
In the open beta for HydrogenOS, our operating system for the China market, the identified folder exists in order to filter out what data to not upload. Local data in this folder is skipped over and not sent to any server."-OnePlus
source: OnePlus, @fs0c131y via AndroidPolice
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