Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following statement after today’s conclusion of the four-day bankruptcy hearing regarding RadioShack:
“We’re pleased that RadioShack has tabled plans to offer for sale the personal identifiable information of its customers. We urge RadioShack to make a blanket vow that it will live up to the assurances it provided 117 million customers and entirely rule out any such sale in the future.”
On March 20, Attorney General Paxton filed an objection to RadioShack’s proposed sale of the personally identifiable information of 117 million of its customers. States supporting Texas’s effort are: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.