Anker

Anker Innovations Co., Ltd, commonly known as Anker, is a Chinese electronics manufacturer based in Changsha, Hunan, China. Among the company's products are phone chargers, car chargers, power banks, earbuds, headphones, speakers, data hubs, 3D printers, charging cables, torches (flashlights), screen protectors, portable power stations, home solar batteries, and smart home devices.

History

Anker was founded in 2011 by Steven Yang in Shenzhen, Guangdong, but the company soon moved its headquarters to Changsha, Hunan. In 2011, Anker expanded its focus from replacement laptop batteries to smartphone battery chargers, wall adapters, portable power banks and conferencing gear. In early 2014, Anker Innovations hired Zhao Dongping, Google's then-head of sales in China,[3] who became president in 2020.[4]

Availability

Aside from its domestic market in China, Anker also maintains subsidiaries in Japan, Singapore, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Until 2016, Anker products were almost exclusively sold on Amazon Marketplace and Newegg. Anker products are also now sold in big-box stores such as Best Buy, Target, and Kohl's. They are also available on e-commerce websites such as Shopee, Amazon, eBay, and other third-party websites in agreement with Anker.[5]

Brands and products

Controversies

One of Anker's sub-brands, eufy, claimed that all data recorded by their webcams was stored locally, inaccessible via the cloud or to anyone but the owner. However, security researcher Paul Moore found out that images and videos were uploaded to eufy's servers leased through AWS. Additionally, these images were tagged with user data. Even after deleting the images and his eufy account, Moore found that the images remained on eufy's AWS servers.[33][34][35][36][37] This led to several sponsored entities, such as YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips, dropping Anker as a sponsor.[38] In December 2022, The Verge reported that eufy had drastically changed its "privacy commitment" page, removing many of their previous statements on the privacy aspects of its cameras.[39]

Since 2023, Anker has recalled multiple models of their power banks due to posing a fire hazard.[40] In June 2025, Anker provided a voluntary recall for five models of their PowerCore power banks due to a potential manufacturing issue involving lithium-ion battery cells supplied by a single vendor.[41] The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission provided an update in September 2025, stating the firm received 33 reports of fire and explosion incidents and that about 481,000 units were affected.[42][43]

In September 2025, John Moolenaar, the chair of the House Select Committee on China, asked the U.S. Department of Commerce to investigate Anker for potential security risks and tariff evasion.[43]

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