Does Eufy train on your data?
Anker's policy for Eufy gives three training permissions, each gated on something you volunteer for. None of them covers the cameras, and about the cameras it says nothing.
This clause is real, but it doesn't resolve the training question - see the finding below.
"user management, statistical analysis, and user behavior analysis · Algorithm training for product optimization(public materials only )"
- 1 Sept 2026
- 5 Oct 2026
- All accounts
- global
- Fetched from the company
- 97EBE3FC…3CA4
Why this is still UNCLEAR: This entry said on 31 August that the policy contained "exactly one training statement". It contains three, and the fault was ours: Anker renders these sections as bare divs, and the text extractor behind these readings dropped them. It was fixed and the page re-captured on 1 September. The three are the clause below, a purposes cell in the Community Forum row scoped to "public materials only"; a product-testing permission on the JML platform, where video, audio or image data you "voluntarily provide, such as audio wake-up words" is "used for model training"; and a generative-AI one, where turning on the User experience Improvement Program or submitting feedback lets Anker "collect your designs and uploaded images to improve our AI models". Each is gated on something the customer volunteers for, and none of them is about the cameras. There is also a narrow promise in the other direction: text requests to the Anka assistant are stored to improve results, "However, this data will not be used for training purposes." For the cameras — the product people buy — the document still states no training use and no commitment against one. Its camera and biometric sections describe familiar-face recognition as on-device, "We do not store or have access to this biometric data", which would not make this an A in any case: a stated inability must cover the company's whole reach, and cloud-stored subscriber video carries no such statement. Three permissions scoped away from the footage, and silence on the footage, is the finding.
What each plan can refuse
The same questions, asked of every plan we could identify. Every cell comes from a quoted clause or a documented search - see the evidence above.
- Not established
- Not stated
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- Not established
How to opt out of Eufy AI training
Plan by plan, from what Eufy's own policy says about refusing. Where it publishes the steps, they're listed here with the limits they carry. Where there's nothing to switch off, or nothing graded, this says so instead of inventing a menu path.
All accounts
Not graded, so no route is pointed at. This entry said on 31 August that the policy contained "exactly one training statement". It contains three, and the fault was ours: Anker renders these sections as bare divs, and the text extractor behind these readings dropped them. It was fixed and the page re-captured on 1 September. The three are the clause below, a purposes cell in the Community Forum row scoped to "public materials only"; a product-testing permission on the JML platform, where video, audio or image data you "voluntarily provide, such as audio wake-up words" is "used for model training"; and a generative-AI one, where turning on the User experience Improvement Program or submitting feedback lets Anker "collect your designs and uploaded images to improve our AI models". Each is gated on something the customer volunteers for, and none of them is about the cameras. There is also a narrow promise in the other direction: text requests to the Anka assistant are stored to improve results, "However, this data will not be used for training purposes." For the cameras — the product people buy — the document still states no training use and no commitment against one. Its camera and biometric sections describe familiar-face recognition as on-device, "We do not store or have access to this biometric data", which would not make this an A in any case: a stated inability must cover the company's whole reach, and cloud-stored subscriber video carries no such statement. Three permissions scoped away from the footage, and silence on the footage, is the finding.
What this policy has done since we started watching
No change detected. We've held a copy of Eufy's policy since 31 Aug 2026 and re-read it since, across 2 captures. The text hasn't moved in a way that touches this verdict. That's a fact about the document, and it's only knowable by having kept the earlier copies.
Everything we read
Vendor response
We haven't yet written to Eufy about this verdict, and they haven't disputed, clarified or announced a change to any clause quoted above. When either happens it's published here, word for word.
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