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

A batch of security and privacy news: Texas filed suit against Netflix alleging illegal collection/sharing of user data and seeking to disable autoplay by default on kids’ profiles; the FCC’s deadline to ban security updates for certain foreign-made routers and drones has been pushed to at least Jan 1, 2029; the ICO fined South Staffordshire Water £963,900 after a Cl0p ransomware incident exposed data for ~633,887 customers and employees who were left undetected for nearly two years; the Linux kernel was hit by a second major vulnerability in weeks (dubbed “Dirty Frag”), reportedly allowing un