Kentucky is latest state to file suit against Temu for alleged privacy violations
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Adrianne Appel2025-07-31T16:44:00
Kentucky took aim at Chinese company Temu, alleging in a lawsuit that it counterfeited popular Kentucky-designed merchandise and violated customers’ privacy.
Temu, owned by multibillion-dollar Chinese company PDD Holdings, is an online clothes and shopping app that, despite high-profile warnings about its poor privacy controls and links to the Chinese communist government, has quickly become one of the top downloaded apps in the United States.
In Kentucky, Temu has stolen intellectual property, according to a lawsuit filed by the office of the attorney general.
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