Texas AG Sues Netflix Over Data Collection
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) hit Netflix with a privacy lawsuit alleging the streaming giant is collecting and selling users’ personal information despite years of promises that it wasn’t in the data-collection business, Christopher Brown reports.
In a complaint brought under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and filed in Texas District Court in Collin County, Texas alleges that Netflix founder and former CEO Reed Hastings assured shareholders and the public that the company’s revenue model was based on subscriptions rather than the use of data for advertising. But behind ...