Texas accuses Netflix of spying on children in new lawsuit

Ken Paxton accuses streamer of designing addictive platform and falsely representing data collection practices

Texas sued Netflix on Monday, accusing the streaming company of spying on children and designing its platform to be addictive.

Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, said Netflix has for years falsely represented to consumers that it did not collect or share user data, when it actually tracked and sold viewers’ habits and preferences to commercial data brokers and advertising technology companies, making billions of dollars a year.