Temu was indicted by an Arizona state prosecutor for secretly stealing information.
Temu was indicted by an Arizona State Attorney for acting as malware for secretly stealing user data.
The application for online shopping from China, so-called incredibly cheap, has become a point over the past year. Temu is worried by many parties about the dumping effort. There are many doubts about the identity of the developer company, as in this news.
According to a report by the website Cyber Insider, the company behind the development of the Temu application, PDD Holdings, has been sued by the Attorney General's Office of Arizona for charges that the Temu application, including the Pinduoduo application, acted as malware with a number of suspicious application behaviors, including anti-Scrutiny attempts, resettings after installation, and the smuggling of many data of users in Arizona without the user's permission, such as
Data acquisition of the user's location via GPS, even if the Location feature is disabled by the owner.
Access to cameras and microphones
Access to the list of applications installed on the machine and the user's account associated with the applications on the list
Access to machine identification codes such as IMEI, MAC Address and Advertising IDs (Ad Account User ID)
Active Wi-Fi Network System Information
The attorney general's office has accused the company of keeping the above information without seeking permission to submit it to the Chinese government. This is illegal.
The behavior of PDD Holdings, although registered on Cayman Island, has largely been done within China. According to Chinese law, companies with domestic operations must cooperate with the Chinese government, leading to the expectation that all data collected will lead to delivery to the Chinese government, which is a security threat to the United States.
In addition to the behavior of the application, the State Attorney General has also accused the company and the Temu application of frequent customer fraud, such as blatant copyright infringement advertising, misdelivery of goods ordered, use of fake product reviews to deceive consumers, frequent miscollection of customer money, and use of never-real rewards to trick customers into introducing more users.
As a result of the lawsuit, it is certain that Temu himself has come forward to deny all allegations, saying that the company is highly focused on its customers by providing them with access to cheap goods and declaring that it will fight the case fully.
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