cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1101450/texas-sues-netflix-for-spying-on-kids-and-consumers-by-illegally-collecting-users-data-w
For years, Netflix represented to consumers that it did not collect or share extensive user data. In reality, Netflix is a logging company that records and monetizes billions of behavioral events—and occasionally streams movies. Netflix uses intentional engineering to track and log users’ viewing habits, preferences, devices, household networks, application usage, and other sensitive behavioral data. Every interaction on the platform became a data point revealing information about the user. This tracking applied to not only adults’ accounts, but also kids’ profiles.
Netflix has then disclosed this information to commercial data brokers and advertising technology companies, where it was combined with data collected from other platforms to build detailed consumer profiles. Netflix users’ data is essentially shopped across Big Ad Tech’s shadowy network. The company earns billions of dollars every year from secretly selling consumer data.
California and Colorado respond to such data mining not by suing them to stop, but by requiring them to do it.
correct, that’s called regulation. Ken Paxton is only capable of crime, so this is him shaking Netflix down. Honestly they deserve each other. Netflix has cash to spare and they keep increasing their subscription prices anyway.
correct, that’s called regulation.
It’s called “invading children’s privacy”, but ok. Paxton is a scumbag, but even a broken clock…
a broken clock is always wrong because you can never trust what it’s telling you, just like Ken Paxton.
PSA about how much of a piece of shit Ken Paxton is:
https://thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/17/ken-paxton-scandal-timeline/
He doesn’t give a fuck about kids, he’s doing this for free publicity in hopes of getting elected to national office. Don’t give him any credit. If he or his compatriots cared, they’d pass laws to protect their citizens and enforce them equally. Instead they pass thought crime laws and enforce them specifically in progressive cities
Hey, maybe this lawsuit is the right thing to do, but also, fuck Ken Paxton
