Xiaomi to launch truly wireless earbuds in India alongside the Mi 10 on May 8

Xiaomi announced yesterday that they will be launching the Xiaomi Mi 10 in India on May 8 on a live stream. And in addition, the company is also going to launch their first truly wireless earbuds as well on the same date.
While we know nothing more about the specs or the name yet, reports have it that these might be the Mi Wireless Earphones 2. Going by the teaser Xiaomi India head Manu Jain shared on Twitter, these earbuds will come with a stem design like the Apple AirPods and other truly wireless solutions.
The Xiaomi Mi 10 that’s launching alongside these earbuds is expected to ship with these specs:
Mi 10 comes with a 6.67-inch full HD+ display with 90Hz refresh rate and Gorilla Glass 3 protection. It comes with four rear cameras including a 108-megapixel primary sensor, 13-megapixel ultra-wide-angle sensor, 2-megapixel depth sensor, and 2-megapixel macro lens. The rear camera supports up to 8K video recording. On the front it has a 20-megapixel selfie camera.
  1. Mi 10 comes with 8GB of RAM and 256GB storage. It’s powered by a 4,780mAh battery with 30W fast charging. Connectivity options include Bluetooth 5.1, USB Type-C, and NFC.Xiaomi's Redmi Note 8 was one of the best-selling Android phones of 2019, according to market analyst Canalys.
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    Xiaomi is defending itself against accusations that it's been collecting private data from people who use its phones and web browser apps. This follows a report Thursday from Forbes that raised concerns the Chinese phone maker is collecting private data on the websites users visit as well as granular information about apps used and files opened on devices. 
    In a blog post Friday, Xiaomi laid out some of its data practices, saying it collects aggregated usage statistics on things like responsiveness and performance that can't be used to identify individuals. The company also said it syncs web browsing history if people have the feature turned on in their settings. It denied any wrongdoing and said Forbes misunderstood its data privacy principles and policy. 
    "At Xiaomi, our users' privacy and security are of top priority," the company said in its post. "We strictly follow and are fully compliant with user privacy protection laws and regulations around the world."
    On Thursday, Forbes cited multiple security researchers who said the company was collecting web history as well as phone data such as "unique numbers for identifying the specific device and Android version" that could be connected to the person using the device. The combination of the data and the identifying numbers could let Xiaomi associate all the data it collects with individuals, which security researcher Gabi Cirlig told Forbes was the most concerning aspect of his findings.
    Cirlig told the publication that when using the default Xiaomi browser on his Redmi Note 8, it "recorded all the sites he visited, including search engine queries" and "every item viewed on a news feed feature of the Xiaomi software." Cirlig said this tracking appeared to happen even when browsing in incognito or private mode, according to Forbes.
    The phone also reportedly recorded things like folders that were opened and screen swipes. Cirlig told Forbes that the data was sent to remote servers hosted by Chinese tech giant Alibaba, which were rented by Xiaomi.
    Other browsers, such as Chrome (made by Google) and Firefox (made by Mozilla), also collect aggregated user information about sites visited. However, these browser makers also offer detailed information about how the data is protected. Google says that Chrome collects "anonymous, randomized data" about usage that isn't associated with user identifiers. In 2017, Mozilla launched a program to collect usage data from Firefox users, protected with a process called differential privacy that makes it very difficult to see if a given individual's data is included.
    Phones that run Apple's iOS or Google's Android operating systems come with their share of privacy concerns, and researchers often have to delve deep into the devices to see what kinds of location and app usage data third party apps are collecting and sending to advertisers. But this is different from the phone maker itself collecting user data, which Apple says it tries to limit as much as possible by processing user data on the phone and leaving it there.
    Google also processes data on the phone when possible, and both companies have developed differential privacy methods for analyzing their aggregate data collections. In addition, Google has developed federated learning programs, which let computer programs analyze data with machine learning on users' devices. The insights from the data are removed from the phone, instead of the data itself.
    It's not clear from Xiaomi's statement if the company uses any of these data-protecting systems on the aggregate data it  collects from users' phones and browsers. A representative for Xiaomi didn't immediately respond to a question on whether it uses differential privacy or federated learning.
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