A short YouTube episode (part two of a series) where cybersecurity/data-protection expert Caitlin Sarian reviews the TEMU app privacy policy. In this clip she and a second speaker list the categories of personal information TEMU may collect: contact data, demographic profile data, communications, transactional/marketing data, personal information from third-party sources, automatic/device data, online activity, and location data.
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What Data does the Internet have on you? Part 2 hi, my name is Caitlin. I'm a cyber security and data protection expert and I want to help you understand all the data that the Internet collects on you. Welcome to part two of the series Figuring out the Fine Print where I will be going through the top apps and websites privacy policies to help you understand what data that they collect on you and why. And the top app on the App Store right now is temu. I'm not sure if I pronounced that right, I clearly don't even have it. But let's just look at their privacy policy and check it out.
So we are on the TEMU privacy policy which can be.
Found here and we can go through with the personal.
Information that they they collect. Look at all this information. So the personal information they collect is contact data, demographic profile data, communications, transactional marketing, etc. Then you go through third party sources says we may be able to combine personal information with.
Received from you with.
Personal information obtained from other sources. Automatic data collection.
Oh this is crazy.
Device data and online activity.
And location data.
If you turn it on. They also collect cookies and similar technologies.