Netflix faces $5 million fine for ‘hiding’ data usage details from customers in Europe

Netherlands’ Data Protection Authority (AP) has reportedly imposed a €4.75 million ($4.9 million) fine on Netflix. The Dutch privacy watchdog claimed that the streaming giant failed to adequately inform users about its data practices between 2018 and 2020.
In a statement to the news agency Reuters, the DPA said that its investigation, which started in 2019, showed that “Netflix did not inform customers clearly enough in its privacy statement about what exactly Netflix does with those data.”