https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...
“The lawmakers said a recent analysis by a commercial company provided to the committee indicates that these devices may potentially collect and transmit extensive user data -- including sensitive personal information to servers under Chinese jurisdiction without explicit user consent.”
>indicates that these devices may potentially
Translation: they could do that (just like everything else connected to the internet), but they don't? (hence you never heard of that probe again?)