Texas is turning corporate privacy promises into consumer protection lawsuits. The state\u2019s recent privacy-related enforcement actions may indicate an emerging litigation strategy: treating what companies say about consumer privacy, security, and data use as potential consumer-protection representations.<\/p>\n
Texas\u2019s most recent petition<\/a> against Meta<\/a> alleges that the tech giant\u2019s messaging app WhatsApp can access users\u2019 encrypted messages. Instead of basing the claims on a newly enacted digital privacy law, the state is using its decades-old consumer protection statute, the Deceptive Trade Practices Act<\/a>, to challenge one of WhatsApp\u2019s defining product promises \u2014 that user\u2019s messages are private.<\/p>\n An Emerging Strategy …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas is turning corporate privacy promises into consumer protection lawsuits. The state\u2019s recent privacy-related enforcement actions may indicate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-393258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}