Texas Sues Netflix for Alleged Data Collection of Children Without Consent
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued streaming service Netflix, alleging that the company collects users' and children's data without their consent while making the platform addictive.
The complaint alleges that Netflix built a "behavioral-surveillance program of staggering scale" that "requires getting Texans and their children glued to the screen and then extracting every possible piece of data about them."
The suit alleges that Netflix plans to "monetize the data for a handsome profit," though Netflix has denied it sells its data to third parties, including in the complaint. The document quotes Netflix CEO Reed Hastings from a January 2020 earnings call, in which he said the company was different from competitors like Amazon and Meta.
"We're not integrating everybody's data. We're not controversial that way," Hastings had said, according to the complaint.
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