{"id":288201,"date":"2026-05-11T17:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/288201\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:21:07","slug":"texas-sues-netflix-for-advertising-bait-and-switch-and-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/288201\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas sues Netflix for advertising \u2018bait and switch\u2019 and spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/28112957-paxton-v-netflix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filed a lawsuit against Netflix<\/a>, accusing the company of turning its back on its promise to remain ad-free and safe for kids. The lawsuit, filed on Monday, claims Netflix has \u201copened Texans\u2019 data for inspection by the same Big Ad Tech community it once criticized for exploiting users in this same way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In the lawsuit, Paxton claims Netflix \u201cquietly built a behavior-surveillance program,\u201d with allegedly addictive features, like autoplay, designed to keep viewers glued to the screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cNetflix has built a surveillance program designed to illegally collect and profit from Texans\u2019 personal data without their consent, and my office will do everything in our power to stop it,\u201d Paxton says in the press release. \u201cNetflix is not the ad-free and kid-friendly platform it claims to be. Instead, it has misled consumers while exploiting their private data to make billions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Paxton accuses Netflix of violating the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, and asks the court to block the streamer\u2019s \u201cunlawful collection and disclosure\u201d of user data, as well as to disable autoplay by default on kids\u2019 profiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Netflix, accusing the company of turning its back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2777,14409,223,9689,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-288201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-entertainment","tag-netflix","tag-news","tag-streaming","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}