The Texas Attorney General has filed a new consumer-protection lawsuit against Netflix, alleging that the company misled Texans by marketing itself as an ad-free, kid-friendly alternative to Big Tech while allegedly building a large-scale system for collecting and monetizing user data. The complaint claims that Netflix repeatedly assured consumers that its paid subscription model separated it
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Texas AG Sues General Motors for Illegal Data Collection
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
This week, Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General, filed suit against General Motors for alleged violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act in collecting and selling drivers’ data to insurers without consumer consent.
In June, the Attorney General’s office announced an investigation into several car manufacturers for alleged collection of mass amounts of data…