On February 17, Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, instituted legal proceedings against TP-Link, accusing the enterprise of engaging in misleading marketing practices for its networking devices and facilitating access by state-backed hackers to the home devices of American consumers. This lawsuit marks the inaugural case in a sequence of legal actions filed by Paxton this week targeting companies with Chinese funding, with the overarching goal of safeguarding the interests of Texas residents.
