Montana AG Austin Knudsen filed a lawsuit against General Motors (GM) and its subsidiary OnStar, alleging the companies collected and sold customers’ driving data without consent, in violation of Montana’s Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act. The lawsuit alleges that GM and OnStar enrolled its customers in a service that tracked driving behavior and…

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Missouri AG Catherine Hanaway filed a lawsuit against Temu, alleging aggressive and misleading business practices, violating Missouri residents’ privacy, hurting Missouri brands, and possible connections to the CCP. A multi-year investigation conducted by the AG’s office found that the Temu app is designed to intentionally and covertly steal large amounts of personally identifiable information (PII)…

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Iowa AG Brenna Bird filed a lawsuit against TP-Link Systems, which controls 60 percent of the American market for network devices like routers and is the dominant player in the US networking and smart home market, alleging that the company violated the Consumer Fraud Act by misleading consumers about the origin and security of its routers.

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Connecticut AG William Tong led a coalition of 44 AGs in obtaining a $2.3 million multistate settlement with Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp), resolving an investigation into the 2019 data breach at LabCorp’s debt collector, Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau d/b/a American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), that potentially exposed the personal information of over 27.5 million individuals,…

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Delaware Governor Matt Meyer, in collaboration with AG Kathy Jennings and state lawmakers, has signed two data privacy bills, addressing data privacy and consumer information protections. House Bills 380 and 381, which go into effect January 1, 2027, expand Delaware’s existing data privacy framework by mandating that businesses that process data of at least 10,000…

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