Mi Video is Being Reported Unsafe by Google Play Store

Google has been pushing hard to ensure that apps on a user's device equally well on the Play Store are secure. The visitor recently released Google Play Protect, an evolution of the "Verify Apps" feature that was previously present on Android. The feature, which is enabled by default on all Android devices, is meant to exist a existent-time malware scanner. The service scans all pre-installed apps every bit well, and surprisingly, information technology marked Xiaomi'south pre-installed app "Mi Video", equally harmful, equally shared by a  Reddit user:

We've seen that Xiaomi's Mi Video app, that comes pre-installed on the Global as well every bit Communist china-based ROMs for their devices, requests a lot of permissions. It has been speculated that the app keeps a record of all user activity, including metadata of the user's videos, timestamps, and more. This is also evident by the ever-increasing size of the "/MiVideo/logs" folder, where the size keeps increasing respective to the usage of the app. This isn't new, because many users have also previously reported the Mi Gallery app requiring access to the user's contacts, failing which will cause the app to not open at all.

Nosotros understand the need for certain permissions to access a user'due south data for specific features, but bluntly speaking, a video thespian should not be tracking a user's activity then rigorously. We hope the visitor looks into and fixes their permissions. Software plays an important part in determining the user'due south experience. While the company does offering the all-time bang-for-cadet hardware, we urge the company to amend their software experience as well. Allow u.s. know your thoughts and feel with Xiaomi's MIUI, and whether y'all've faced like problems or not in the comments down below.

Source: https://beebom.com/mi-video-reported-unsafe-play-store/

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