Netflix & Chill – What streaming services do while you’re on the couch

Forced Consent & Consent Bypass Cinemas and theatres are closed but the show must go on, as they say. And the show does go on. There is TV, of course, but also streaming services such as Netflix or Amazon. Streaming services are slick and fun … and generate a lot of data about which movies or songs you consume when and where. However, they often sloppily explain to users what happens to their data, regardless of whether they are financed by advertising or paid subscriptions. The Austrian Chamber of Labour (Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte, shortform Arbeiterkammer or AK) and noyb investigated the information practices of eight streaming services against the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): Amazon Prime (music and video), Apple Music (music), DAZN (video), Flimmit (video), Netflix (video), SoundCloud (music), Spotify (music) and YouTube (video). The GDPR requires providers to give information on the use of personal data and the data protection rights o