Kentucky’s attorney general, Russell Coleman, said on July 17 that the state has filed a lawsuit against Temu, alleging that the Chinese e-commerce platform secretly collects massive amounts of American users’ personal data.
The complaint, filed in Woodford County Circuit Court, also alleges that Temu infringes upon the intellectual property rights of U.S. companies.
The state’s investigation has revealed “code-level behaviors” in Temu’s app that allow it to collect users’ personal information without their knowledge or consent, according to the court documents.
The lawsuit alleged that such behaviors pose privacy and security threats, in part because Temu has a portion of its operations in China, where cybersecurity laws grant the regime “unfettered access” to data belonging to Chinese companies….