"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Netflix. Paxton argues that the streaming service collected user data, including from children's accounts, despite claims otherwise by the company. The suit claims Netflix earns "billions of dollars every year from secretly selling consumer data" to commercial brokers and online advertising businesses."
""Netflix has built a surveillance program designed to illegally collect and profit from Texans' personal data without their consent, and my office will do everything in our power to stop it," Paxton said in a press release announcing the suit."
"The Texas lawsuit also claims that Netflix is designed to manipulate viewers. It takes issue with features such as autoplay, which the suit alleges keeps viewers, again including children, on the platform for longer periods of time. The lawsuit seeks autoplay being disabled by default and children's profiles as well as an end to Netflix' alleged collection and distribution of user data."
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Netflix alleging the company collected user data without consent, including data from children’s accounts. The lawsuit claims Netflix profits by secretly selling consumer data to commercial brokers and online advertising businesses. The suit also alleges Netflix uses design features to manipulate viewers, including autoplay that keeps viewers on the platform longer, including children. The lawsuit seeks to disable autoplay by default and to end the alleged collection and distribution of user data. It also seeks changes involving children’s profiles.
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