COMMUNIST CHINA IS WATCHING YOU.
Keep scrolling to see how.
TikTok
TikTok is directly controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. It is a sophisticated propaganda tool, designed specifically to influence the way you – and your children – think. It’s also a powerful spy machine. It can track every keystroke, every click, and the location date of its users. It can even store sensitive financial information of its users on servers in China, including social security numbers.
Resources
Temu
Temu, like TikTok, is directly controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. Temu’s suppliers use forced labor to make their products, where ethnic and religious minorities – like the Uyghurs – are forced to work inhuman hours in sweatshops for the sake of a regime that is actively trying to genocide them out of existence. It is also a potent spying tool, able to track your location, your movements, and steal your personal data.
Resources
Looking Beyond TikTok: The Risks of Temu
Trump administration weighs adding Shein, Temu to forced labor list
Coros GPS Sports Watch
Coros watches are spying devices masquerading as fitness trackers. Coros is a China-based company that makes smart watches designed to track your health and fitness. It is one of the most popular brands in the U.S., with sales equal to better-known brands like Whoop and Garmin. However, to use its services, users must agree to send their health and location data to servers in China. At the same time, Chinese law guarantees that the Chinese Communist Party has virtually unlimited access to private health and location information of all its users.
Resources
GE Smart Fridge
General Electric's appliances division is owned by China-based Haier. GE appliances are now using the same smart home technology and phone app that Haier does. Appliances made by Haier allow spyware to infiltrate every part of your home internet network and send the data to China, where the Communist Party can easily access it.
Resources
Cosori Smart Air Fryer
Cosori smart airfryers are manufactured in China and run on Chinese software. They allow you to download an app to help run your fryer, which tracks your location and collects audio through your phone. They received the worst privacy score compared to its competitors (41%) from privacy nonprofit group "Which?"
Resources
Honeywell Thermostat
Honeywell is a major China-based maker of home appliances like smart thermostats. It has repeatedly landed in hot water, including by violating U.S. law through sending sensitive, protected information to China.
Resources
Tuya Automatic Pet Feeder
Tuya is a massive China-based manufacturer of products that are connected to the internet. Cybersecurity experts have called for it to be banned, as common household products like automatic pet feeders can collect data from your home Wi-Fi network and transmit the data back to China.
Resources
Cybersecurity Experts Worried by Chinese Firm's Control of Smart Devices
Lumiman Smart Light Bulb
Lumiman is a China-based producer of smart light bulbs that can be connected to devices like Amazon Alexa and Google Home via Wifi. When connected to WiFi, Lumiman’s devices give China access to your entire network and personal data stored with Amazon or Google.
Resources
Ningbo Joyson Electronics
Ningbo Joyson is a China-based company that manufactures virtually every element that goes into your car – from screens to collision detection technology that can stop your car. Every major car company uses them, including Ford, Toyota, GM, and Honda. Worse still, these car parts are manufactured with slave labor.
Resources
Automotive Supply Chains and Forced Labor in the Uyghur Region
WeRide
Chinese made self-driving car WeRide is a spy machine on four wheels. China's driverless rideshare app now has permits to operate in the US. It uses a technology called LiDAR to scan its environment to help it navigate. LiDAR can be used to scan and map out an area, creating a digital map of everything around it; data which can then be accessed by the Chinese government. The company that created the LiDAR used by WeRide, Hesai, has been sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Defense for providing services to the Chinese military.
Resources
New Chinese Companies, including Hesai Technology, Included On DoD's Chinese Military Companies List
DJI Drones
DJI drones are made in China and run Chinese software, meaning they can spy wherever they fly, literally pulling footage shot by their drones and making it available to China. It is the most popular drone brand in the U.S., and the FBI has warned that these drones "continue to pose a significant risk to critical infrastructure and US national security."
Resources
FBI and CISA warn companies to be wary of using Chinese-made drones over national security risks
Gotion
Gotion is a notorious Chinese battery manufacturing giant. They have notably partnered with Tsinghua University in Beijing, an institution with close ties to China's People's Liberation Army, cyberattacks, and the genocide of Uyghurs in northwest China. The company has also been focused on trying to open massive new factories right next to U.S. military bases, leading to fears of attempted espionage and causing widespread resistance in states like Michigan.
Resources
New Evidence Implicates Gotion in CCP State-Sponsored Slave Labor
Smithfield
Smithfield is one of the largest meat producers in the United States, selling in grocery stores all around the country. It is owned by China, giving the Communist Party control over a major portion of America's food supply.
Resources
House Agriculture Committee Holds Hearing on Chinese Infiltration of American Agriculture
Hikvision traffic cameras
Many traffic cameras in the U.S. are made by China-based Hikvision. Cybersecurity experts have discovered vulnerabilities that allow hackers and others - including the Chinese government - to gain control of these cameras and see what they see.
Resources
Lenovo Thinkpad
Lenovo is one of the most popular computer brands in the world and is common in American households. However, it is a Chinese spying machine. Government officials have repeatedly warned that Lenovo computers are sending data back to China and are used to spy on American citizens.
Resources
House Committee Requests Navy Exchange Remove CCP-Linked Computers
Yealink
Yealink is based in China and sells office phones to businesses all over the U.S. A recent report demonstrated how Yealink phones could be leaking confidential information back to the Chinese government.
Resources
Common Office Desk Phone Could Be Leaking Info to Chinese Government, Report Alleges
Hisense TV
Hisense manufactures smart TVs and is owned by the Chinese government. It is quickly becoming one of the largest TV brands in the United States. These TVs are connected to the internet and can be used for spying, prompting widespread concern. Hisense is also a manufacturer for the Chinese army, meaning that its revenue helps fund the Communist Party's war machine.
Resources
Zoom
Zoom videoconferencing software has been used by the Chinese government to spy on American citizens and access confidential data. It is also very vulnerable to hacking, either by criminals or by state-sponsored hacking operations.
Resources
Zoom hit with allegations of enabling spying by China, hackers
TCL smart TV
Popular smart TV brand TCL is owned by the Chinese government and could be potentially sending your data directly to China. By connecting directly to the internet, it can collect your private data and store it on servers in China, which can then be accessed by the Chinese government.
Resources
Deepseek Application
DeepSeek is a China-based AI company that created a popular AI-powered chatbot, similar to Chat GPT. Its data collection policies explicitly state that user inputs, including text and audio, are stored on servers located in China. Thanks to Chinese law, the government will have access to American account information whenever it wants.
Resources
Researchers link DeepSeek's blockbuster chatbot to Chinese telecom banned from doing business in US
Ecovacs Robot Vacuums
Ecovacs are a cheaper, Chinese-manufactured version of automatic vacuums like Roomba. In fact, it now has a higher revenue from vacuum sales than Roomba. These devices can collect photos, videos, and voice recordings from your house can transmit them directly back to China. They can even build a 3D model of your home.
Resources
TP-Link
TP Link is an internet router company based in China and is notorious for security vulnerabilities. However, it dominates the U.S. market, making up 65% of private internet router sales. Experts and government officials warn that it has several security vulnerabilities which could give the Chinese government and hacking groups access to your entire home network and all connected devices.
Resources
Chinese Wireless Routers: The Next Entry Point for State-Sponsored Hackers?
Fredi Baby Monitor
Fredi baby monitors are made in China and run on Chinese software. They are easily exploited by hackers. The company made the news after a stranger hacked one of its baby monitors to talk to a 3-year-old without parent's consent.
Resources
Lorex Home Security Cameras
Lorex home security cameras are very popular in the U.S. - they hold 7% of the domestic market share. It has close ties to the Chinese government and was used to facilitate its abuses against minority groups like the Uighurs. The footage recorded by these cameras can be accessed by the Chinese government.
Resources
Lawmakers say Costco's decision to continue selling banned China surveillance tech is 'puzzling'
Take Action
State Armor is taking the fight to the CCP by helping state governments implement the solutions we need to remove all the CCP's tech and surveillance vectors into your state.
Support our efforts by donating today.
Donate Now