The Indian Air Force (IAF) has issued a clarification regarding the recent alert issued against Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi. The IAF clarified to Indian Express that the advisory against the Chinese upstart is four to five months old.

No new notification has been issued by IAF recently regarding the use of Xiaomi smartphones.

The reason behind the advisory is, the IAF doesn’t keep track of the smartphone market and neither does it recommend any particular brand or handset to its personnel. The advisory did not mention anything on banning the use of Chinese smartphones at all.

It was more like a cautionary note as the handset was tracking user’s location and was sending the information to servers based in Beijing, like similar advisories had been issued before regarding the use of personal computers as well.

Xiaomi sells its phones in India via Flipkart.com, the country’s biggest online e-Commerce retailer site and also plans to set up a data centre in India next year to store local user data as well.