Whaleco Succeeds in Bid to Arbitrate Temu Data-Collection Claims

Users of Whaleco Inc.'s Temu online-shopping app must arbitrate their claims that the company collected their personal information without their consent in violation of state and federal privacy laws, a federal court ruled.

The plaintiffs’ challenges failed because the agreement showed the parties intended to delegate questions of arbitrability to the arbitrator, Judge Margo K. Brodie of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York said Thursday.

Brodie also dismissed the claims of a putative class of non-users of the Temu app for lack of standing and dismissed claims against Whaleco’s Ireland-based parent company PDD Holdings Co. ...