Lithuania looks to ban ‘untrustworthy’ phones after Chinese censorship concerns
By Andrius Sytas
VILNIUS (Reuters) – Lithuania’s Defence Ministry is drafting legal guidelines to ban state institutions from shopping for “untrustworthy” gear, after discovering a censoring attribute in a Chinese smartphone agency’s flagship phone, Margiris Abukevicius, deputy minister on the Defence Ministry said.
The censoring performance in Xiaomi’s Mi 10T 5G phone software program program has been turned off for the “European Union space” nevertheless is likely to be turned on remotely at any time, the nation’s National Cyber Security Centre said in a report on Tuesday.
A Xiaomi spokesman said in an announcement despatched to Reuters on Wednesday its system “does not censor communications to or from its clients”.
The Defence Ministry is now drafting the legal guidelines to ban public institutions from procuring “untrustworthy” gear, along with smartphones, with a view to presenting it to the …