China's Temu will send data of South Korean users to third party companies

China's Temu will send data of South Korean users to third party companies Tezzbuzz | 23/02/2025 06:24:14

Seoul Seoul: South Korean users will have to agree to transfer their personal data to third party companies in the country under the new privacy terms of Chinese e-commerce platform Temu, showing its new policy.

Under the update privacy conditions applied on the same day, users will have to provide their partners in South Korea to provide their personal customs withdrawals, transactions, addresses, phone numbers, device information and data usage etc.

The development occurred amid increasing concern in South Korea about Chinese Chatbot Deepcik's data collection practices. According to the report of the Yonhap news agency, earlier this week, the government said that it has suspended the new download of the DeepCic app in South Korea for until measures are taken.

The data collected has been assigned to 27 companies in six countries – South Korea, United States, Singapore, Japan, Australia and Indonesia, in charge of disposal of data users' data.

A Temu official said, “The scope of the third companies providing user data has been increased in South Korea, but there is no change in the list of personal data to be sent to them. Has been done.” Last year, South Korea's Data Safety Regulatory, Personal Information Safety Commission (PIPC) started checking data collection and use by Chinese e-commerce platforms including Aliexpress and Temu amid concerns of privacy violations.

While the regulator fined Aliexpress about 1.9 billion vons (US $ 1.32 million), it postponed the decision on Temu due to lack of data on its commercial practices in South Korea. The report said that a PIPC official said that the investigation of Temu is in its final stages and the results will be revealed soon.