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.
I can guarantee Ken Paxton is not doing this to protect anyone’s privacy. He is an absolute piece of shit human being. Anything he is doing has an ulterior motive. He is probably trying to extort Netflix or prop up some other streaming services one of his lobbyist owns.
Populist Fascism playbook. This gets them votes from single issue voters that would normally be outside their voter base.
“He might be a terrible person, but he’s fighting the fight for {Privacy, against big tech, etc.}”
It’s funny they use the word “disclosed” and not “sold”.
All the collection I knew about. I knew they used it for their internal metrics and recommendations. I didn’t know they sold it. I wonder how useful it is though.
