Ken Paxton sues Netflix, accusing it of 'spying on Texans, including children' |
Ken Paxton sues Netflix, accusing it of ‘spying on Texans, including children’
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Monday filed a lawsuit against Netflix, alleging the company is “spying” on state residents and employing deceptive trade practices.
Paxton accused Netflix of being designed to be addictive, saying it has earned billions of dollars annually from secretly selling consumer data collected to bolster advertising after the streaming platform was originally marketed as an escape from data driven commercials and targeted on screen ads.
The Texas lawsuit cites a 2019 comment from Netflix co-founder and chairman Reed Hastings in a letter where he promised shareholders that rumors alleging the platform would move into selling advertising were false.
It also cites Hastings’s remarks from a 2020 earnings call where he again confirmed that user data was not being collected.
“Netflix’s explosive financial growth reflects a deliberate choice to cash in on the trust it spent years cultivating under false pretenses. In 2022,........