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Hawaii Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act, private injunctive relief

Haw. Rev. Stat. Sec. 481A-4

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An enforcement supervision rule binding private bodies.

As of 2 September 2026.

What it requires

  • Expect a person likely to be damaged by a deceptive trade practice, including a misleading claim about data handling, to be able to seek an injunction without proving monetary damage or intent to deceive.
  • Do not treat the absence of a chapter 487N breach as the end of private exposure. This separate deceptive-trade-practices statute reaches any deceptive trade practice, not only a data breach.

If you get it wrong

Criminal exposureNo

Private right of actionYes

Who enforces it

Enforcement body

Private action for injunctive relief only (Haw. Rev. Stat. Sec. 481A-4); the chapter creates no civil penalty or state regulator enforcement mechanism.

What it reaches

Obligation class

Prohibition

What this law does

Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.

A person likely to be damaged by a deceptive trade practice of another may bring an action for an injunction, without needing to prove monetary damage, loss of profits, or intent to deceive.

This is a second, independent private-action route into Hawaii's data-privacy landscape, broader than the Security Breach of Personal Information Act's own private right of action in the conduct it reaches (any deceptive trade practice, not only a chapter 487N breach) but narrower in remedy, since it reaches only injunctive relief rather than damages, and it carries discretionary fee-shifting against a groundless or knowingly deceptive claim.

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Read the law

official Hawaii Revised Statutes text, Hawaii State Legislature

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