These recommendations are not born out of a concern for privacy or Chinese tracking, as was the case here in the US. Instead, Lithuania is more worried about the built-in censorship tech that reportedly ships with phones sold by certain China-based phonemakers, such as Xiaomi. Apparently, the phones in question...
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