Posted on 06/13/2024 8:18:21 PM PDT by ransomnote
Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims
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Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular in the US that even Amazon is reportedly trying to copy it—is “dangerous malware” that’s secretly monetizing a broad swath of unauthorized user data, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Griffin cited research and media reports exposing Temu’s allegedly nefarious design, which “purposely” allows Temu to “gain unrestricted access to a user’s phone operating system, including, but not limited to, a user’s camera, specific location, contacts, text messages, documents, and other applications.”
“Temu is designed to make this expansive access undetected, even by sophisticated users,” Griffin’s complaint said. “Once installed, Temu can recompile itself and change properties, including overriding the data privacy settings users believe they have in place.”
Griffin fears that Temu is capable of accessing virtually all data on a person’s phone, exposing both users and non-users to extreme privacy and security risks. It appears that anyone texting or emailing someone with the shopping app installed risks Temu accessing private data, Griffin’s suit claimed, which Temu then allegedly monetizes by selling it to third parties, “profiting at the direct expense” of users’ privacy rights.
“Compounding” risks is the possibility that Temu’s Chinese owners, PDD Holdings, are legally obligated to share data with the Chinese government, the lawsuit said, due to Chinese “laws that mandate secret cooperation with China’s intelligence apparatus regardless of any data protection guarantees existing in the United States.”
Griffin’s suit cited an extensive forensic investigation into Temu by Grizzly Research—which analyzes publicly traded companies to inform investors—last September. In their report, Grizzly Research alleged that PDD Holdings is a “fraudulent company” and that “Temu is cleverly hidden spyware that poses an urgent security threat to United States national interests.”
As Griffin sees it, Temu baits users with misleading promises of discounted, quality goods, angling to get access to as much user data as possible by adding addictive features that keep users logged in, like spinning a wheel for deals. Meanwhile hundreds of complaints to the Better Business Bureau showed that Temu’s goods are actually low-quality, Griffin alleged, apparently supporting his claim that Temu’s end goal isn’t to be the world’s biggest shopping platform but to steal data.
Investigators agreed, the lawsuit said, concluding “we strongly suspect that Temu is already, or intends to, illegally sell stolen data from Western country customers to sustain a business model that is otherwise doomed for failure.”
Seeking an injunction to stop Temu from allegedly spying on users, Griffin is hoping a jury will find that Temu’s alleged practices violated the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (ADTPA) and the Arkansas Personal Information Protection Act. If Temu loses, it could be on the hook for $10,000 per violation of the ADTPA and ordered to disgorge profits from data sales and deceptive sales on the app.
Noah’s Nightly Newsletter – 6/28/24
https://truthlion.com/noahs-nightly-newsletter-6-28-24/
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I tried to warn the young women at the (Antifa) cosmo. school, but they were way too excited about the beyond dirt-cheap crap, probably full of cadmium, lead, spike proteins, nanoparticles, etc. They might be getting what their entailed, lazy, no work butts deserve. It’s beyond disturbing, their locust-like nature. They answer their problems with girl gangs though, so maybe send them to the source. LOL.
Tell me about it.....
Guthfield’s take on last night, we’ll worth the 10:44 min
https://truthsocial.com/@KarliBonne/posts/112697528660787364
He needs to go back into retirement because age has not helped that wormy horse’s ass.
I nominate you for The Post of the Day.
I nominate you for The Post of the Day.
😂🤣 I have a friend who was really miffed that they were arguing about golf. She was all over Facebook about it this morning.
MarQ
PDJT’s part of the golf exchange was funny, but Biden made an @$$ out of himself .
He who exercises government by means of his virtue
may be compared to the north polar star,
which keeps its place
and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius
The golf argument seemed like a natural devolution and was par for the course.
Assange says the email shown in this video is the most significant in his whole collection.
Because the email contains sensitive info between Hillary Clinton and John Podesta.
https://x.com/CRRJA5/status/1806410488495894537
Come sit by me.
Re Par:
Haha!
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