Temu
At its core, Temu is a useful app that not many people will even worry about. However, the popular shopping might not be as safe as people think.
As it turns out, Temu collects a lot of information about you. According to Komando, some of the data Temu collects include:
- Your name, address, phone number, and birthday.
- Your picture and social media profiles.
- Your IP address.
- Your GPS location.
- Browsing data.
- The operating system of the device you’re using.
Not only that, as the article says, Temu “also gathers more about you from third-party sources, including Temu sellers, public records, social media, data brokers, credit bureaus, and marketing partners.”
Granted, a lot of this information you have to provide and even manually agree to share with Temu. With that said, since this app is from China, many people are worried that their data might be used for the wrong reasons. Plus, Temu’s sister company, Pinduoduo, was caught earlier this year developing an Android app to exploit security vulnerabilities that would allow it to “monitor activities on other apps, check notifications, read private messages, and change settings.”
While there’s no evidence that Temu is doing this, it still raises a red flag. If you’re worried about sharing this much information, you should delete Temu now.