{"id":215429,"date":"2026-02-19T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/texas-ag-targets-temu-in-new-lawsuit-over-alleged-privacy-violations\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:25:07","slug":"texas-ag-targets-temu-in-new-lawsuit-over-alleged-privacy-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/texas-ag-targets-temu-in-new-lawsuit-over-alleged-privacy-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas AG Targets Temu in New Lawsuit Over Alleged Privacy Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas AG Targets Temu in New Lawsuit Over Alleged Privacy Violations<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-02-19 16:21:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against PDD Holdings, Inc. and WhaleCo Inc., doing business as the global online shopping platform \u201cTemu,\u201d for unlawfully deceiving consumers while covertly harvesting Texans\u2019 personal data and exposing it to the Chinese Communist Party (\u201cCCP\u201d). Image for illustration purposes<\/p>\n

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AUSTIN \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against PDD Holdings, Inc. and WhaleCo Inc., doing business as the global online shopping platform \u201cTemu,\u201d for unlawfully deceiving consumers while covertly harvesting Texans\u2019 personal data and exposing it to the Chinese Communist Party (\u201cCCP\u201d).<\/p>\n

Temu operates under PDD Holdings Inc., a company founded in China that relocated its principal executive offices from Shanghai to Dublin, Ireland, but continues to maintain significant operations in China. As of May 2023, the United States accounted for over 40% of Temu downloads worldwide, with 82.4 million active users in the United States as of September 2023.<\/p>\n

When operating on the Temu site or app, consumers are exposed to a digital security threat. Temu utilizes dangerous software functions that are completely inappropriate for a simple e-commerce retailer. These functions expose the Temu app for what it is\u2014a trojan horse that allows the app to bypass security protocols and create a backdoor into user\u2019s private data. While Temu represents to consumers that it offers \u201caffordable great products,\u201d it is simultaneously turning the consumer into the product and harvesting vast swaths of data to be stored on servers in China.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTemu is Chinese Communist spyware disguised as a shopping app. Texans deserve transparency, privacy, and protection from foreign adversaries that exploit their personal data,\u201d said Attorney General Paxton. \u201cI will not allow foreign corporations to lie to Texas consumers with misleading marketing and…<\/p>\n

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