[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] CaptShaft:
Hi guys!! Carl Pei put out a brief statement on this affair which you can see below.

https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/lets-talk-about-oxygenos-analytics.654820/

However he's a very busy man - he's off to get his pedicure right now - so he's asked me to step on in and fill in a few details which he may have inadvertently left out of his statement. I've done so below. Please enjoy.

Bros, homies, pals, buddies, & assorted chumps:

Where have we heard this standard PR opening line before? Equifax? Target? Home Depot?

Translation: We got caught with our grubby hands in your big data cookie jar, and were sorry we got caught.

We had a good thing going on for a while, and you jabbering malcontents purposely ruined it all for us here at my fine company. Were big into Big Data - you little peons are the "product," after all - and now you woolly-headed numbskulls have trashed all my fine work. Thanks, thanks a lot.

Everybody else's doing it so we're going to do it as well. What's good for the goose, and all that…

We care so much about your petty "rights" that we somehow neglected to tell you the whole details of this entire data collection shenanigan before we rushed the product out the door and shoved it before your beady little eyes. But, hey, it's cool, right? No harm, no foul, right? "Mistakes were made," as Nixon said one time, remember?

In fact take it so seriously we just didn't seriously take it seriously enough to seriously do something about it ahead of time. No one in our head office ever thought that your personal data being thrown around like this, without the slightest hint of anonymization, salting, hashes, etc., would cause anyone to get their pantyhose tied in a knot. But as I said before, hey, these things just send a happen. All by themselves, apparently.

Had you given us your government personal identification number, mother's maiden name, and bank account information, we would've "securely" transmitted all that as well. Why didn't you tell us that ahead of time?

Thanks for letting me opt out, bub. Why was I no asked to opt-in in the first place?

Nobody in this world ever figured out a way to support any device after sales without collecting this sort of in-depth information ahead of time. Nope, there's just no way to do it with this kind of product. Or with any product, really. We couldn't bother to ask you say, when you purchased it, what your order number was, would your email is, etc., to provide any sort of "support."

And rest assured, when we say "support" we don't mean the typical level of Dell-type "support" where you're talking to "Joe" or "Sally" in India, or stuck navigating through an endless series of phone menus – Push 2 for this option - before reaching a "customer service representative" which politely apologizes and then says, apparently it's something you've done or it's a problem with your phone after you've used it.

No, we would never do anything like that. We're better than them. "Never Settle" and all that jazz…

That's really heartwarming, Carl. I can't tell you how happy that makes me. BTW, how do you know if you've been hacked? Would you tell us the truth if the government politely "requested" this data from you in the name of "stopping terror"? Would you tell us the truth if you turned around and sold all the data to multiple ad agencies?

Does "improving our product and service offerings" includes serving up targeted advertising? Also, what "service offerings" those OnePlus offer the end-users, exactly? If were just buying hardware from you, what's the "service" we're getting which we just can't live without?

How critical is it to "improve service offerings" by collecting things like Wi-Fi network names, MAC addresses, and IMEI / phone serial numbers? How does that help you or me in any way shape or form?

Can anyone in this world gets serious answers to these questions without getting the runaround from you or your company?

There was some reason why we didn't bother to ask you this beforehand but, huh, it kinda slips my mind now. Can't think of why you weren't asked before all this collection started in the first place. Oh well, it can't be that important. Moving along…

Why then were you collecting it in the first place? What is this do for users?

Promises, promises. Don't all these other companies in a similar situation say exactly the same thing?

…to ad networks on a silver platter. Or: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIufLRpJYnI

Please however, don't bother me with your petty complaints in the near future. My stock options were surging right before this entire story broke, and now you whining small-town pissants ruined it all for me. I hope you're all happy with yourselves.

Well, continue to buy my products, and in the near future try to keep your mouths shut and stop whining. Now, I'm off to get the ski slopes. Keep it quiet down there.

Thanks & XOXOXO!!

Carl