South Korea fines China’s Temu for user data violations

South Korea has fined Chinese ecommerce giant Temu nearly one million dollars for illegally transferring Korean users’ personal information to China and other countries, a data protection watchdog said Thursday.

Chinese platforms such as Shein, Temu and AliExpress have skyrocketed in global popularity in recent years, offering a vast selection of products at stunningly low prices that have helped them take on US titan Amazon.

Temu outsources and stores users’ data with companies in several countries, including China, Singapore, South Korea and Japan,…