Nokia-branded phones sent personal data from Norway to China (Updated)

Update 14:00 Saturday 23 March 2019: HMD Global, through its PR agency, sent us an updated statement to clarify: if a Nokia phone is bought outside of China, “Your data is stored in Singapore. Singapore, as you may already know, follows very strict privacy laws.” If the device is bought from inside of China, “In order to comply with China Cyber Security law, we are obligated to store data originating from China in China. This means that only those devices that are sold in China