Nigeria investigates Temu for doable information privateness breaches | EUROtoday

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) mentioned it was investigating Chinese-owned e-commerce big Temu amid considerations over its information safety practices.

“The investigation into Temu was triggered by concerns around online surveillance through personal data processing, accountability, data minimization requirements, transparency, duty of care, and cross-border data transfer,” the NDPC mentioned in a press release revealed on-line late on Monday.

How massive has Temu grown in Nigeria?

The transfer in Africa’s most populous nation and one in all its greatest markets comes amid rising world scrutiny of Temu’s fast worldwide enlargement.

NDPC chief Vincent Olatunji ordered ‌the ​probe and warned that processors might be held accountable for any non-compliance beneath the Nigeria Data Protection Act of 2023.

The NDPC mentioned in its assertion that Temu dealt with the non-public information of round 12.7 million Nigerians, based mostly on its preliminary investigations.

Why is Temu going through scrutiny internationally?

The Chinese-owned app-driven on-line discounter Temu is topic to a collection of investigations in a number of international locations, usually in consequence both of information safety considerations or product high quality, compliance and pricing considerations.

Last October, the European Commission introduced an investigation, saying Temu was not doing sufficient to cease the sale of unlawful merchandise on its website. Its EU headquarters in Dublin was searched later that 12 months.

In the US, in the meantime, a number of states have accused Temu of information safety legislation breaches. In December, Arizona joined their ranks, alleging that the location tracked customers and was obliged to go information requested by the federal government to authorities in Beijing.

“It can detect everywhere you go, to a doctor’s office, to a public library, to a political event, to your friends’ houses,” Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes mentioned on the time. “So the scope of this invasion of privacy is enormous.”

Edited by: Louis Oelofse