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.
Technically valid but extremely rich coming from a US state of all places.
https://iowaspulse.com/iowa-flock-license-plate-cameras-privacy/
Safe to say they’re not against spying in general.
If you’re an average American, the spying Iowa allows and embraces put you in far graver danger than spying by China who doesn’t give a shit about you or what you have to say about them. America, as we’ve seen, cares slightly more about what Americans say than China does.
I’d stay clear of Temu mainly because it’s a shitty platform replete with blatant scams and you risk losing your money. Go to an actually reputable Chinese site if you want to buy from one, or don’t if you don’t.
Also don’t buy cloud/app enabled cameras if you give a shit about privacy. From anywhere, period, because doing so guarantees you’ll be spied on by someone, China or otherwise. Roll your own local network camera system with hardware and software you control or get ones that only record to local storage with no smart features.
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.
Thank you for pointing out the blatant US/western propaganda…
Most nations have ways of spying anyway. Shit, there was a convicted Chinese spy tied to an Arcadia mayor in the U.S. This whole thing isn’t propaganda. Though the U.S. for sure spies on its own people, maybe more than other countries do.
It’s propaganda, because we’re supposed to be afraid of China spying on us while our own government spies on us.
What are China’s spies even going to do to me?
The U.S is just collecting my data, what are they even going to do to me?.. It’s all about your data. That is the whole point. It’s not about fearing China.
Rough you up, put you in prison, kill you, etc. My government can actually hurt me. China can’t do shit.
The word fear is not mentioned in that link. The whole point is, you shouldn’t want anybody collecting your data. From anywhere.
But why does Iowa care so much more about China collecting data than the US? The fear is implied, we’re supposed to be scared of the evil foreigners having our data while the good ol’ US companies can be trusted. Otherwise, why focus on China?
Come on, “spying by the Chinese government” is blatant fear mongering. Spying by the US government is far more concerning.
