Iowa accuses Temu of collecting private consumer data
www.courthousenews.com
Iowa says Temu and its Chinese-owned parent company open consumers up to spying by the Chinese government.

It’s safe to say, don’t buy cameras from shady places.

“Iowa sued Temu and its Chinese parent company on Wednesday, claiming the online retailer violates Iowans privacy rights and exposes them to spying by the Chinese government.”

Also, Cyb3rMaddy Investigated a Camera from Temu. There is some truth to China harvesting your data. But! Data was also being sent to servers in the U.S.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuqQR_R-dEQ

  • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldOP
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    16 days ago

    Point being, they are still heavily connected with China. There actually might be some instances of Amazon being caught. Amazon gets sued all the time!

      • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldOP
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        16 days ago

        Yes they do!

        “Amazon agreed to a $5.8 million settlement with the FTC following claims that Ring allowed employees and contractors unrestricted access to customer video data. The company was also hit with a class-action lawsuit in Seattle alleging its cameras collected and stored “face prints” of bystanders without consent.”

        “Alexa & Fire TV: Amazon paid a $25 million penalty to settle FTC allegations that it violated children’s privacy by holding onto Alexa voice recordings longer than necessary. Additionally, a proposed class action accuses Amazon of utilizing Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) to secretly spy on consumers’ Fire TV viewing habits to sell targeted ads.”

        You are just being very nit picky with this specific link.

          • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldOP
            1·
            16 days ago

            I just gave you examples of how Amazon faced actual financial consequences because of spying. In fact, way worse than the little Iowa link I shared. I should have shared the link you helped me find, lol! You actually helped me with information.

                  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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                    16 days ago

                    I said, a lot earlier in the comment chain:

                    But why does Iowa care so much more about China collecting data than the US?

                    And it was in a thread where the OP is about Iowa. That was the context in which I said Amazon won’t face consequences. I was clearly talking about Iowa law and why Iowa targeting Temu is biased, you bringing up Biden’s FTC making decisions three years ago to refute this. You aren’t seriously engaged with what I have to say, you just want to “win” the discussion.

                    I hate talking to redditeurs.

              • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldOP
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                16 days ago

                Losing what? We are all losing. I just shared a small fish example link, when there were bigger fish out there like Amazon I should have posted.