cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/privacy/p/1101473/texas-sues-netflix-for-spying-on-kids-and-consumers-by-illegally-collecting-users-data-w
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.
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My read: bolstering his senate campaign. Look what a champion I am for the people. He was neck and neck with Cornyn and now the primary has moved to a runoff. Everyone knows Netflix and I think this is generally perceived as a positive, so it’s great PR for that criminal in an AG’s clothes.
You’re right that anything a big politician or Attorney General is involved with is probably a sham. It’s likely just to make it look like they’re doing something. I think they’re targeting Netflix because they can prove selling data on children. I think it’s a mistake to think big politicians or Attorneys General really have an ideology beyond selfishness. They didn’t get to those places by having strong beliefs, they got there by deals under the table.
