From the porous home security files: Eufy nerfs and crawls under a rock to hide

This will excite the paranoid among us -- a privacy commitment gets nerfed.[1] The Verge writes:
Anker’s Eufy deleted these 10 privacy promises 
instead of answering our questions

Two weeks after getting caught lying to The Verge, Anker still hasn’t sent us any answers about its security cameras. Instead, it’s nerfed the Eufy “privacy commitment.”

A Eufy in the rain

It’s been two weeks since we reported that Anker’s Eufy lied to us about the security of its security cameras, and we’ve been pushing the company for answers ever since. But the company hasn’t answered a single one of our questions — in fact, I haven’t gotten a single reply since December 1st.

Today, on a whim, I thought I’d take a peek at Eufy’s website... maybe find some answers there? Instead, I found that Anker has quietly scrubbed all of its most promising privacy promises from its “privacy commitment” page. It got nerfed — hard.

Here are 10 things that were written on Eufy’s privacy commitment page as of December 8th, 2022, that are no longer there today:
  • “To start, we’re taking every step imaginable to ensure your data remains private, with you.”
  • “[Y]our recorded footage will be kept private. Stored locally. With military-grade encryption. And transmitted to you, and only you.”
  • “Here at eufy, we’re not just all talk and no action.”
  • “With secure local storage, your private data never leaves the safety of your home, and is accessible by you alone.”
  • “All recorded footage is encrypted on-device and sent straight to your phone—and only you have the key to decrypt and watch the footage. Data during transmission is encrypted.”
  • “There is no online link available to any video.”
  • “You need to use Eufy software and your account to decrypt the clips for viewing. No one else can access or read this data.”
  • “For Your Eyes Only”
  • “Peeking Prohibited”
  • “Everything In-House”
Some thoughts come to mind:
Caveat emptor

Fibbing fibbers

Capitalism sometimes nerfs under scrutiny

This isn’t a Q-drop for Anons, 
it’s real for normies[1]


Footnote: 
1. Terminology
Nerfing = to weaken or render ineffective
Q-drop = some lies, slanders and/or crackpottery that QAnon posts
Anons = people who believe and support QAnon
Normies = normal people, most of whom do not believe or support QAnon


By Germaine: The consumer protection specialist, connoisseur of new words and all around professional doofus

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