- The data continues to return to Chinese servers even with the off -tension telemetry
- Hardware and SG specifications, mouse / keyboard activity and more
- The use of trae memory is 3 times higher than the cursor
A developer brought to Github to warn that IDE fueled by Traedance traeedance has collected data from users and sent it to the servers of the Chinese company.
A report noted that network activity continues despite users invalidating telemetry in the parameters, with around 500 network calls observed in seven minutes, which is equivalent to around 26 MB of transferred data.
The data were transported to the Bytedance servers on byteoversea[.]Com Domaine, with a wide range of information on the system and the project potentially at risk of being collected by the company.
Trae Ide de Bytedance could collect data
According to the report, Bytedance collected system information such as the material specifications and the details of the operating system, the models of use, performance measures, project path and file information, unique persistent identifiers and mouse / keyboard activity, between certain other elements.
The developer has also found that Bytedance has the potential to activate / deactivate functionality or to remotely modify features without pushing updates.
Combined as a free alternative to Cursor, Trae uses GPT-4O and Claude-3.5-Sonnet to help users increase productivity, but the application has proven to be used about three times more memory than the cursor (and 6.3x vs code).
The biggest confidentiality and security problems in the center and data sovereignty, with major alarm ringtards on the persistent collection of information from Bytedance, even after users have changed their preferences. The developer was also concerned about the amount of useless system information collected in these newspapers and that everything was sent to Chinese infrastructure.
Bytedance customers also share transparency problems, the FDI not having properly disclosed the data collected and the tilted telemetry that is similar.
Techradar Pro Asked bytedance to respond to these allegations, but we did not receive an immediate response.
