{"id":212778,"date":"2026-02-12T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/california-fines-disney-over-privacy-opt-outs-02-13-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:30:11","slug":"california-fines-disney-over-privacy-opt-outs-02-13-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/california-fines-disney-over-privacy-opt-outs-02-13-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"California Fines Disney Over Privacy Opt-Outs 02\/13\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

California Fines Disney Over Privacy Opt-Outs 02\/13\/2026<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-02-12 15:51:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Disney will pay $2.75 million to settle charges that it violated California’s privacy law by failing to fully honor streaming video users’ requests to opt out of the sale or sharing
\nof their data.<\/p>\n

The settlement, approved
\nWednesday by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Daniel Crowley, also requires Disney to implement a “consumer-friendly, easy to execute opt-out process,” and to stop “conducting cross-context behavioral
\nadvertising” after consumers opt out of the selling or sharing of their data.<\/p>\n

A Disney spokesperson stated Thursday that the company “continues to invest significant resources
\nto set the standard for responsible\u00a0and transparent\u00a0data practices across our streaming services.”<\/p>\n

The settlement resolves a complaint alleging that Disney failed to honor consumers’ opt out requests across their devices.<\/p>\n

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“California\u2019s comprehensive data privacy law … created a whole new world of consumer data protections,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleges in the complaint, which
\nreferences theme songs from Disney movies including \u201cAladdin\u201d and \u201cBeauty and the Beast.\u201d<\/p>\n

“But in a tale as old as time, Disney placed its profits over
\nthese critical consumer privacy rights,” the complaint states.<\/p>\n

Bonta’s office alleges that Disney “diligently linked consumer devices and data for purposes of targeting
\nconsumers with ads,” but “failed to link those same devices and data when it came to complying with consumers\u2019 exercise of their statutory right to opt out of targeted advertising.”<\/p>\n

The Disney settlement comes around two years after Bonta launched a\u00a0privacy crackdown\u00a0on companies offering streaming apps or devices. As part
\nof that initiative, he sent letters to streaming companies that allegedly didn’t give residents an easy mechanism to opt out of the sale or sharing of their data.<\/p>\n

In November,
\nDish’s Sling TV agreed to settle with Bonta over claims that it failed to offer consumers a simple way to opt out of the use of their data for…<\/p>\n

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