Eavesdropping air fryers ‘sending data to China’

Air fryers may be serving up a side of surveillance with your chicken and chips.

Mark Sellman, The australian (don't read it)

Among other tested devices, the Huawei Ultimate smartwatch was classed as giving invasive access to parts of someone’s phone, including precise location, the ability to record audio, access to stored files and the ability to see all the other apps installed.

It's a smart watch, what is a smart watch for if not connecting to your mobile?

The australians on an anti china spree at the moment, below is a scary photo from last week: secret footage from inside a wine store in Wuhan! 😱

Show stalin wine

  • Hexboare [they/them]
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    5 hours ago

    They didn't publish the full responses, e.g.

    Huawei said: “Huawei takes consumers’ privacy incredibly seriously. Clearly, to be useful lifestyle and health/fitness partners, smartwatches require permissions to access a number of personal data; we are very clear both on the devices at set-up, and on the companion app Huawei Health, which permissions are required and why, and users have full control over turning them on or off at any time.”

    • EllenKelly [comrade/them]
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      3 hours ago

      I didnt even finish reading the 'article', i got to the bit about the watch and just rolled my eyes. This was obvious to me, I should be more mindful to do this, even if we are in the showtrial comm