A court denied RealPage’s attempt to have Connecticut’s antitrust case dismissed, allowing the lawsuit to continue. The complaint alleges that RealPage used landlords’ nonpublic, competitively sensitive rental data in an algorithm to recommend prices and that its practices inflated rents; no penalty or final remedy against RealPage is reported.
No final remedy was imposed on RealPage. The lawsuit continues, and the state seeks an order stopping the company and property managers from sharing nonpublic information and working together to inflate rents.
Review vendor and property-management agreements involving pricing software, especially data-processing and permitted-use clauses, confidentiality terms, and restrictions on sharing or using nonpublic data from other landlords or competitors. Check whether contracts allow a vendor to aggregate customer data, generate or distribute pricing recommendations, or encourage automatic acceptance of algorithmic recommendations; consider express limits, transparency and audit rights, and antitrust compliance obligations. Customer agreements should also clearly describe data use and pricing functions, while employee policies should address access to and handling of competitively sensitive information.
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RealPage, Inc.
Industry
Real Estate"Connecticut, the U.S. Department of Justice, and a coalition of states sued RealPage in 2024."
"The lawsuit alleges that the software company used landlords’ competitively sensitive data to create a pricing algorithm that violated antitrust laws and raised rent prices."
"That data included information about rental units coming on the market, rent prices property managers were charging, and discounts they were offering."
"will continue after a court ruled in favor of Connecticut and denied the software company’s attempts to have the case thrown out."
"The lawsuit against RealPage asks the court to stop the company and the property managers it works with from sharing non-public information and working together to inflate rent prices."
An Oregon judge rejected RealPage’s attempt to have the state’s rent-pricing lawsuit dismissed, allowing the case to move forward. Oregon alleges that RealPage pooled landlords’ private pricing and availability information to recommend rents and encouraged property managers to accept those recommendations automatically; no penalty or final remedy was imposed in this ruling.
$625K
Connecticut reached a $625,000 settlement with Frontier Communications Parent Inc. over an April 2024 breach in which compromised employee and vendor credentials were used to access internal systems and exfiltrate unencrypted personal information of 58,841 Connecticut residents. The settlement requires Frontier to strengthen its security program, implement specific safeguards and training, and obtain an independent third-party assessment.
$2.6M
Connecticut and New York found that Boston Children’s Health Physicians and its security vendor, XTIUM, failed to use reasonable safeguards, resulting in hackers accessing sensitive personal, medical, and employee information. The companies agreed to pay penalties totaling $2.64 million and implement enhanced cybersecurity measures.
Connecticut joined a coalition of state attorneys general filing a notice in Character Technologies, Inc.’s bankruptcy proceedings, raising concerns about the company’s safety and privacy practices and the sensitive information it holds. The states seek protections for children and consumers if the company’s business or assets are sold or transferred; the filing does not impose a fine or other remedy.
Attorney General William Tong and Consumer Counsel Claire Coleman petitioned PURA to review how Connecticut public utilities use artificial intelligence, citing potential data privacy and cybersecurity risks, algorithmic errors, and misleading outputs. The petition asks PURA to examine utility AI systems, safeguards, vendors, and data security practices; it does not report a finding of violation or an imposed penalty.
$2.0M
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced a settlement with RZ Smoke, Inc. over allegations that it distributed and sold high-potency cannabis products without a state license. The stipulated judgment is $2 million, with $375,000 payable to the State and $1.6 million suspended to ensure compliance; the company is barred from specified cannabis activities in Connecticut unless licensed.