This just gets weirder: Xiaomi was caught out by security researchers, who found its devices phoning home with private data. But the Chinese company promised it did no such thing. Then it doubled-down with a rambling blog post saying it didn’t do that. And an official PR spokesperson repeated the claim twice more.
[Our thoughts]: We have to remember that Exactis wrote about how easy security was right before they were compromised. In general, you should be extremely careful about what you believe from any company. This is just good security practice.