On October 7, a rent-to-own retailer agreed to pay $25 million to California customers and $3.4 million in civil penalties to settle a consumer protection and privacy suit brought by the California Attorney General. In addition to alleging that the retailer violated California's rent-to-own law, the complaint claimed that the retailer violated state privacy laws by installing spyware on rented laptop computers without customer consent. The spyware monitored keystrokes, captured screenshots, tracked physical locations, and activated the computer webcam.
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