A consumer rights group has warned UK shoppers to research their next electronics purchases carefully, after finding evidence of “excessive smar

Chinese Air Fryers May Be Spying on Consumers, Which? Warns

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2024-11-05 10:30:03

A consumer rights group has warned UK shoppers to research their next electronics purchases carefully, after finding evidence of “excessive smart device surveillance” from Chinese air fryers and other products.

Which? claimed that smart air fryers from Xiaomi, Cosori and Aigostar all wanted to know customers’ precise locations, as well as permission to record audio on the user’s phone.

The Xiaomi app linked to the smart device also connected to ad trackers from Facebook, TikTok’s Pangle ad network and Tencent, depending on the location of said user, the report claimed.

It also said that Aigostar wanted to know the gender and date of birth of the owner when setting up an owner account, and that both it and Xiaomi sent personal user data back to servers in China.

However, Cosori received the worst privacy score (41%) as it was marked down on consent, data security, tracking and data deletion.

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