Temu spying through ads?

CHICAGO — A federal court in Illinois declined to dismiss a class action accusing the operator of an online advertising platform, Index Exchange, of illegally intercepting a website visitor’s communications and sharing his personal data with Temu. The web user sufficiently alleges that the companies intercepted his communications through real-time advertising and “cookie syncing” processes and the alleged data transfers violated federal regulations restricting the transfer of Americans’ sensitive personal data to foreign adversaries.