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Lawsuit Accuses Netflix of Spying on Users

TIME·Callum Sutherland·20 days ago
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Netflix is being sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has accused the streaming platform of “spying on Texans, including children, and collecting users’ data without their knowledge or consent.” Paxton said Netflix had promised “that the company does not collect and integrate user data, and that kids profiles are specially designed to protect children.” Instead, he alleges, Netflix “quietly built a behavioral-surveillance program of staggering scale.” “This program requires getting Texans and their children glued to the screen and then extracting every possible piece of data about them while they are there,” he said in the lawsuit filed Monday. “When you watch Netflix, Netflix watches you,” the lawsuit claims.…

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