The truth about those claims of Qualcomm chips secretly snooping on you
Cellphones using Qualcomm chipsets may transmit data sometimes classified as personal information, specifically IP addresses, back to Qualcomm. But where such transmission is occurring, it's not secret and it has been going on for years.
Post author"Paul Privacy" found that a Sony Xperia XA2 smartphone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 processor, running /e/OS, a version of Android stripped of Google services, started communicating with Izat Cloud over unprotected HTTP.izatcloud.net It's basically a way to make GPS more precise and reliable while reducing use of energy-intensive radio hardware. The Izat servers provide information about satellite positions, which Qualcomm-powered phones download over HTTP. Doing so reveals to the servers the public IP addresses of the phones plus, according to NitroKey, some device metadata. That's really what this all boils down to.
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