As I understand it, Eufy is owner by Anker, which is listed on the stock exchange of Shenzen, China.
There is a major problem with data privacy as chinese laws now are similar to US law against terrorism, but apply to political activities like supporting the independance of Taiwan, criticizing the “national security law China has imposed on Hong Kong” in Hong Kong or indeed China’s Repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang.
As I understand it, the Chinese state can force chinese businesses to deliver all data pertaining to chinese as well as foreign citizen, and there is also a “gag order” preventing these companies to even talk about it.
This is worrying, considering this very post becomes an issue, as well as all the data collected on Eufy customers (even if video / facial recognition data is kept on a local homebase, there are questions about what data /metadata is on the Eufy server, like the 6 eufy cookies that are currently active on my computer now, and the fact that Eufy has mails of all accounts - and, if two factors authentication is developped, will also know the phone numbers of my whole family -).
For a start, could there be clarity about eufy ownership and legal localization ? The country in which the software is developped is also of interest, as I would not really trust code developped in a company with a Communist Party cell.
As a goal, could eufy be localized in the most protective system for data privacy, probably the European Union ?