Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, U.S. lawsuit claims
Kissaki@beehaw.org 4 months ago“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.”
So just like the majority USAian app out there?
Which apps do that? Because I am certain it’s NOT the majority, and very skeptical about any other apps doing that.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 months ago
More about the part of stealing information. Most people barely look at permissions.
All Temu had to do was ask and people would grant it.
Anti Commercial-AI license
jarfil@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Not sure about Apple, on modern Android apps need to ask for each permission when they’re about to use it for the first time.
Google Play will also periodically revoque permissions to apps that haven’t used them for some time.