While Battlegrounds Mobile India has been a highly anticipated game, the upcoming battle royale title has also been facing a lot of scrutiny and calls for ban even prior to its release. Now, a new report has revealed that data from the Android version of the game was found being sent to servers in China.
According to an IGN report, the data regarding Indian users’ Android smartphones are being sent to a server in China. The data sent and received by the Battlegrounds Mobile India app are from China Mobile Communications servers in Beijing. This is a Tencent owned Proxima Beta in Hong Kong. Similarly, the data is also being sent to Microsoft Azure servers situated in the US, Mumbai, and Moscow.
The report added that these results were produced by simply installing a data packet sniffer app on your Android device. The app would then be able to find out which servers the smartphone is communication with. When checking the servers that the upcoming mobile game is connecting to, it was found that one of the servers was revealed to be run by China Mobile Communications Corporation, which is a Chinese state owned company. This server was located in Beijing, China.
I didn’t even have to play a game this time. pic.twitter.com/Xmb6Gnhj52
— rishi alwani (@RishiAlwani) June 20, 2021
Furthermore, one does not have to play a match either just to get these results. Apparently, Battlegrounds Mobile India also pings a Tencent server in Beijing as it begins booting up the game. This is major news considering Krafton Inc clearly states in its terms of service that the personal information of players would be stores and processed in servers that are based in India and Singapore. Although, it did add that it may “transfer your data to other countries” to meet “legal requirements.”
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