{"id":261933,"date":"2026-05-12T17:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=261933"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:08:20","slug":"netflix-accused-of-spying-on-users-including-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/261933\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix accused of spying on users, including children"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Netflix has been sued in Texas over claims it collects data belonging to children and adults in the US state without their consent, and uses &ldquo;addictive&rdquo; design to keep them hooked, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c072dvv1rmro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused the streaming giant of &ldquo;spying&rdquo; on citizens saying it &ldquo;records and monetizes billions&rdquo; of pieces of information about how users behave on the platform, despite suggesting otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix has rejected the claims and says it will challenge them in court.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has been sued in Texas over claims it collects data belonging to children and adults in the US state without their consent, and uses &ldquo;addictive&rdquo; design to keep them hooked, the BBC writes. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused the streaming giant of &ldquo;spying&rdquo; on citizens saying it &ldquo;records and monetizes billions&rdquo; of pieces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":261930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261934,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261933\/revisions\/261934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}