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Texasfiled a lawsuitTuesday against GM over years of alleged abuse of client ’ data and trust . young car owners were pose with a “ puzzling and extremely misleading ” process that was implied to be for their rubber , but “ was no more than a misleadingly designed sales stream ” that surrendered their data for GM to sell . The suit contends that at no point was selling driving datum ever even suggested as a possibility , putting GM in violation of the land ’s consumer security laws .
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is seeking a panel run and at least $ 10,000 per criminal offense ( every GM car sold in the Department of State since 2015 ) and a hefty add - on of $ 250,000 in case where the victim was over 65 .
Texas seems to be fly highafter a recent $ 1.4 billion settlement from Metaover other privacy concern . This may well be a way to solve any pending budgetary issuance in the Lone Star State .
