Chinese smartphone companies launch new Android privacy platform
20/08/2025 | South China Morning Post
China's five leading Android smartphone brands: Honor, Lenovo, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi, have launched a new platform to standardise privacy protection for users in the artificial intelligence (AI) era. The initiative aims to balance privacy with the data needs of AI features.
The companies, working under the Intelligent Terminal Alliance (ITGSA), will explore new mechanisms to ensure data authorisation is "transparent and controllable" based on the principle of "minimum and necessary" access. This new system, set for implementation after the fourth quarter of 2026, will introduce native controls and a platform review process. For example, applications will only be able to access a user's photos after a specific file has been selected, not the entire library. Developers have been given access to tools and test environments to adapt to the changes.
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