Iowa AG Brenna Bird is leading a coalition of 15 Republican AGs demanding transparency and accountability from the AI company OpenAI for its alleged lack of oversight and transparency in the hacking of Hugging Face, another AI company. In July, OpenAI unveiled an experimental AI model that gained unauthorized access to several computer networks which…

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Iowa AG Brenna Bird has announced that her office has sued the e-commerce marketplace Temu for violations of the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act. The suit alleges that Temu advertises itself as an e-commerce platform offering low cost goods to consumers but the promise of savings can allow the platform to harvest data of consumers. The…

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AGs in Iowa and Oklahoma advanced separate consumer protection actions against Roblox over allegations that the gaming platform misrepresented its child-safety protections and exposed minors to unsafe online interactions. In Iowa, a court partially denied Roblox’s motion to dismiss AG Brenna Bird’s Iowa Consumer Fraud Act lawsuit, allowing the State’s deception claims and several unfair-practices…

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Iowa AG Brenna Bird has amended her complaint against social media giant TikTok and related entities to add additional claims regarding the vulnerability of Iowans’ personal data in violation of state consumer protection law. The AG’s original complaint focused on children’s safety and alleged that TikTok knowingly designed its app to be addictive to youth…

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Iowa AG Brenna Bird filed a lawsuit against healthcare claims clearinghouse Change Healthcare Inc. and its owners and operators alleging that cybersecurity and breach-response failures during a 2024 cyberattack violated the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act and the Personal Information Security Breach Protection Act. The petition claims the companies used outdated, insecure systems that lacked basic…

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