TEXASDATA LAW

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Attorney General Enforcement and Investigations

How the Texas Attorney General investigates and enforces data laws, how to respond to a CID, and what the enforcement record shows.

LG06 · Hub: Enforcement and Litigation · Intended reader: Litigators, general counsel, investigators, and privacy leads

Scope

Texas Attorney General enforcement powers, notices, cure provisions, penalties, private-action boundaries, and the different theories available under different statutes. It describes practical response to investigations and maintains a docket-filtered enforcement index. Texas relevance: the Texas AG is the primary enforcer across the TDPSA, DTPA, CUBI, SCOPE, and broker regimes, and recent dockets name major platforms and vendors.

Section outline

  1. Deck: "How the Texas Attorney General investigates and enforces data laws, how to respond to a CID, and what the enforcement record shows."
  2. Short answer: powers, CID response, cure, penalties, no private TDPSA action, index methodology.
  3. Section: Enforcement Powers and Theories by Statute.
  4. Section: Notices, Cure Provisions, and Penalties.
  5. Section: Responding to a Civil Investigative Demand (section 17.61).
  6. Section: Preservation and Response Workflow.
  7. Section: Scope Negotiation in Regulatory Investigations.
  8. Section: Private-Action Boundaries.
  9. Section: Multistate Coordination and Investigation Overlaps.
  10. Section: Limits of AG Press Releases.
  11. Section: Reading the Enforcement Index (complaints as allegations, settlements by their terms; no inference that reported claims were adjudicated).
  12. What Is Unsettled: enforcement posture where no public disposition exists.
  13. Sources.
  14. Related reading: LG07 (privacy representations and the DTPA), /tracker/texas-attorney-general/ (CR05, sourced from LG06 and LG07).

Assigned content modules

  • G07: Texas Privacy Enforcement and Remedies
  • G86: Civil Investigative Demands and Regulatory Investigations

Required research sections

  • Enforcement powers, notices, cure provisions, and penalties (what it covers)
  • Civil investigative demands under Business and Commerce Code section 17.61 (what it covers; CG10 required coverage)
  • Preservation, response workflow, and scope negotiation (what it covers; CA-related practical response)
  • Private-action boundaries and the theories available under different statutes (what it covers)
  • Complaint as allegation and settlement as its actual disposition (methodology section; what it covers)
  • Multistate AG comparisons and investigation overlaps (CE14 required coverage: multistate comparisons, investigation overlaps, limits of AG press releases)
  • Enforcement index (separate Tracker view: separately capture Meta, Google, GM/OnStar, Allstate/Arity, TikTok, Character.AI, other SCOPE platforms, DeepSeek, PowerSchool, Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense, TCL, Snap, Shein, Netflix, Meta/WhatsApp, Discord, Roblox, TP-Link, Alibaba, CapCut, 23andMe, Texas v. HHS, and relevant Texas AG alerts; primary subject links to LG07, LG08, LG11 through LG13, LG15, LG16, LG19, LG21, LG38)

Research anchors and owner works

Anchors: L01, L03, L04, L05, L06, L11, L12, L19, L20, L14. Owner works: A01 (dependency; content to be supplied by owner, not invented)

Owner works: A01 (dependency; content to be supplied by owner, not invented).

Sister-site crossover

none required by Appendix F. Crossover seed original.

Industry: All industries
Track: Litigation and Enforcement

Related reading

  • privacy representations and the DTPA