Texas sues Netflix over alleged data practices that create ‘surveillance machinery’ without user consent

Multiple security and privacy incidents surfaced: Texas sued Netflix alleging unlawful collection/sharing of user data and asked a court to ban default autoplay on kids’ profiles; California and UK regulators levied record privacy fines (GM and South Staffordshire Water) after large data exposures and prolonged undetected breach by the Cl0p ransomware group; the FCC delayed a planned ban on security updates for foreign-made routers and drones to 2029; and the Linux kernel was hit by a severe local privilege-escalation flaw dubbed “Dirty Frag,” a second major bug in the same subsystem within a2