Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin is taking legal action against the Chinese fast fashion retailer Temu over what he alleges are the company’s "deceptive tactics" that are harming consumers. In announcing the lawsuit Tuesday, Griffin said Temu was "not simply an online marketplace a data theft business that uses the online marketplace as a means to an end." Griffin’s lawsuit targets Temu’s parent company, "PDD Holdings.
According to Griffin, the app includes a code, written to avoid detection and evade security review. "You may have seen these unbelievably low prices and you might be thinking, ‘how can they sell that so low?’ Because it’s not their business. Their business is the data, as I indicated, the selling of the product, the marketplace, is a means to an end." Griffin noted that the company is run by former members of the Chinese Communist Party .