Texas Caps off Bevy of Enforcement With GM Lawsuit
Texas saw its data privacy law, the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, enter into effect on July 1st, less than 14 months after the law passed the state legislature. In an effort to signal the state's intention to prioritize the matter, Attorney General Ken Paxton has been busy the past few months.
Several weeks ago he sent out notices to over 100 companies on their data privacy noncompliance as warnings, and then the state followed that up by reaching a $1.4 billion settlement with Meta over data privacy violations committed by Facebook last decade.
Yesterday continues the busy summer for Texas data privacy enforcement, as Paxton announced a lawsuit against General Motors over the car manufacturer's "unlawful" data collection practices.
While both the GM lawsuit is at the beginning of a long legal proceeding, the message you should take away from all of this is that Texas is taking data compliance seriously.
