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Iowa accuses Temu of collecting private consumer data. (www.courthousenews.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s the same data Amazon and most e-tailers collect. The difference between Temu and Amazon is Jeff Bezos attended Trump’s inauguration, while Temu is a competitor based in China, which the US considers its greatest enemy.

Now what I saw next was completely unexpected: my email is sent out in plain text.

Yeah, that’s how email has always worked. Even if you go out of your way to use Proton, PGP, or S/MIME, your metadata is still in plaintext.

[–] Sims@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 days ago (78 children)

Thank you for pointing out the blatant US/western propaganda..

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