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.
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
https://www.ksstradio.com/2026/05/paxton-pursues-texas-school-districts-to-enforce-ten-commandments-law/