Last year, some phones from BLU Products were found to be transmitting some of their contents to Chinese servers. The company cleaned up the software that was transmitting that info shortly after, but now BLU is in the spotlight for a similar issue.
Amazon has suspended sales of BLU phones over a “potential security issue.” A report came out last week that suggested that select BLU devices have been sending user data like call logs, cellular location, and IMEI to Chinese servers.
Amazon issued a full statement to CNET on this latest situation:
"Because security and privacy of our customers is of the utmost importance, all BLU phone models have been made unavailable for purchase on Amazon.com until the issue is resolved.”
Having its devices pulled from Amazon is bad news for BLU for a couple of reasons. Not only is the company associated with another privacy issue, but it’s missing out on some potential sales because its phones are on Amazon’s virtual shelves. Now we’ll just have to wait and see how BLU responds.
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