BLU has since admitted that about 120,000 of its phones “had been collecting unauthorized personal data in the form of text messages, call logs, and contacts from customers” via the ...

Blu, the Florida-based maker of budget Android phones, says it’s swapping out the Chinese update software that stole user data for Google-approved software, according to a report in PCMag.

Amazon has suspended sales of Blu phones amid concerns about device data being sent ... Best Android antivirus apps of 2025; ... which was transmitting SMS messages and other private data to a ...

Basically, SMS and phone apps will all need to be manually whitelisted from now on. This kind of enforcement is definitely a new front in Google's attempts to police the Android ecosystem.