Visitors gather outside the Nokia booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 26, 2019. REUTERS/Sergio Perez/File Photo
HELSINKI: Finland's data protection ombudsman said on March 21 he would investigate whether Nokia-branded phones had breached data rules after a report said the handsets sent information to China.
Nokia-branded mobile phones are developed under licence by Finnish company HMD Global, which said no personal data had been shared with a third party although it said there had been a data software glitch with one batch of handsets that had been fixed.
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