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Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, U.S. lawsuit claims (arstechnica.com)
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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."

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[–] xep@fedia.io 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Why not use the English word for an entity that resides in the USA: American?

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because I find USAian more appropriate. USA isn't a representative of two entire continents.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh so youre just a contrarian. Got it.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 5 points 4 months ago

Looks like his usage of term got a desired result here lol

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

Because it's imperialist and racist to pretend that USA is America.