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Originally Posted by mscion View Post
Anybody own Chinese manufactured phones? Is Google doing this anyways?

http://www.phonearena.com/news/N.Y.-...ervers_id87822
Et tu, Apple?

IPHONES SECRETLY SEND CALL HISTORY TO APPLE, SECURITY FIRM SAYS

(Sorry for ALLCAPS, just pasting headline as written.)

And not to be outdone, Google Shutting Down The Accounts Of Users Who Resell Their Pixel Phones Supposedly, Pixel phone customers agree (with no option to negotiate, of course, "first-sale" be damned) to not resell their devices. Google doesn't specify a penalty for doing so, but according to several hundred who did it, it's digital death penalty, including shutting off their gmail.