"Netflix Is A BAD Actor" - Ken Paxton EXPOSES Netflix's SECRET Child Spying Program
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🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claims Netflix is secretly collecting and monetizing user data, including children’s viewing behavior, and using it for targeted manipulation without proper disclosure or consent. The lawsuit alleges deceptive trade practices involving surveillance-style data tracking, autoplay “dark patterns,” and content recommendations that parents were not clearly warned about.
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| 0:00.0 | Story comes out with you talking about how Netflix is not you. |
| 0:07.6 | We're not just watching Netflix, but Netflix is watching us. |
| 0:11.1 | And specifically, watching what's happening with kids and taking that content and retargeting |
| 0:18.0 | kids. |
| 0:18.4 | So maybe unpack to the audience why you decided to sue Netflix. |
| 0:21.6 | Look, one of the things that we worry about in Texas is privacy and taking consumer data and information, |
| 0:29.6 | tracking them. I've sued Google, I've sued Facebook, I've sued General Motors, I've sued a lot of companies. |
| 0:34.6 | I've sued seven Chinese companies because they take our data without |
| 0:38.7 | disclosing it to the consumer and then they sell it and monetize it and then they try to |
| 0:43.7 | manipulate our behavior, including in this case, Netflix, children. And they provide inappropriate |
| 0:49.9 | content and they manipulate our children and try to get them to watch things that may be inappropriate |
| 0:54.7 | and they're not telling the consumer here's what we're doing to as a matter of fact they're denying |
| 1:00.2 | it and the reality is in Texas you can't do that we're going to hold you accountable i don't care who you |
| 1:04.8 | are so the things that i see here about the lawsuit is one is collecting data. |
| 1:13.1 | Two is allegations of selling data to add tech companies. |
| 1:17.2 | Three is lawsuit targeting dark partners and autoplay. |
| 1:22.2 | And then Netflix obviously denies the allegation. |
| 1:24.9 | And what you're asking for, what Texas is asking for is civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation and wants Netflix order to stop unlawfully collecting and disclosing data. |
| 1:36.0 | And saying the fact that Netflix has built a surveillance program designed to illegally collect and profit from the Texas personal data without consent. |
| 1:45.2 | So when you say dark patterns, lawsuit targets dark patterns and autoplay, what do you mean |
| 1:51.4 | by dark patterns with Netflix? |
| 1:54.0 | So they are, as we said in the lawsuit, collecting this data about children. |
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