Xiaomi Shifts Some Smartphone User Data Out of Beijing

Xiaomi Shifts Some Smartphone User Data Out of Beijing

Data belonging to the privately owned company's non-Chinese users will be moved in several phases to Amazon Inc servers in the United States and data centres in Singapore, Xiaomi vice president Hugo Barra said in a Wednesday blog post on Google Plus.

Apart from privacy, Barra also said the moving data to overseas servers has significantly boosted speed in markets such as Singapore, India and Malaysia.

Moving data offshore "better equips us to maintain high privacy standards and comply with local data protection regulations," Barra wrote. "This is a very high priority for Xiaomi as we expand into new markets over the next few years."

Xiaomi Invests in Chinese Mobile Security Firm LBE

Xiaomi's subsidiary recently took a stake in LBE Security, which makes mobile security software. LBE users reached 60 million in November 2013, according to its official website and cooperates with handset manufactures including Xiaomi and Meizu.

The company has no specific business model so far and its operations rely mostly on investor funding.