Texas AG sues Netflix, claiming the streaming service collects user data without consent
Key takeaways
- Sergio Flores/Getty Images Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Netflix.
- The Texas lawsuit also claims that Netflix is designed to manipulate viewers.
Sergio Flores/Getty Images Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Netflix. Paxton argues that the streaming service collected user data, including from children's accounts, despite claims otherwise by the company. The suit claims Netflix earns "billions of dollars every year from secretly selling consumer data" to commercial brokers and online advertising businesses.
"Netflix has built a surveillance program designed to illegally collect and profit from Texans' personal data without their consent, and my office will do everything in our power to stop it," Paxton said in a press release announcing the suit.
The Texas lawsuit also claims that Netflix is designed to manipulate viewers. It takes issue with features such as autoplay, which the suit alleges keeps viewers, again including children, on the platform for longer periods of time. The lawsuit seeks autoplay being disabled by default and children's profiles as well as an end to Netflix' alleged collection and distribution of user data.