Texas accuses Netflix of spying on users, including children

Texas Attorney General Ken Packon accused the transmission giant for “spiration” of citizens, saying that “reregisters and earns money from billions of” information about how users behave on the platform, despite suggesting otherwise, the BBC reported.

Each interaction on the platform became a point of data revealing information about user”, his office said.

Netflix has dismissed the claims and says he will reject them in court, according to a statement shared with Reuters.

“With respect for Texas's great state and Attorney General Paxton, this indictment is of no value and is based on incorrect and distorted information”, a Netflix spokesperson for the news agency said.

“Netflix takes seriously the privacy of our members and agrees with the laws of privacy and data protection wherever we operate. ”

The BBC has turned to Netflix for comment.

When you look at Netflix, Netflix sees you”, the indictment submitted Monday by the Texas chief prosecutor says.

According to the indictment, the broadcasting company defended itself differently from other major technology firms in the way it processed data and promoted users.

It quotes former company chief Reed Hastings, who said in 2019 and 2020 that he would not collect and gather or monetize user data, such as selling ads.

But the indictment says Netflix used a combination of features of the design “versive”, such as the automatic content of the game and “registering” of the user's activity to keep people on the page.

Among the billions of technical events he recorded was what users clicked and stayed, and as long as the indictment adds.

In 2022, it is said that the company also began using the mountains of data that kept children and families fixed on their screen” by sharing these with commercial data brokers to help collect billions of dollars in revenue.

“Shkurt, Netflix sold subscriptions to its programmes as an escape from the supervision of Big Tech: pay every month, avoid prosecution”, said in indictment.

The BAR Texanians trusted that agreement. Netflix broke it up by building the same data collection system that the subscribers paid for to escape. ”/Periscope